Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sri-spam!ames!sdcsvax!ucbvax!sdr.slb.COM"!"PSI%SNMSN1::PSI%DSAVX1::JAMET From: "PSI%SNMSN1::PSI%DSAVX1::JAMET@sdr.slb.COM".UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.vms Subject: TeX 2.0 driver for QMS 800 on VMS Message-ID: <8706140445.AA17799@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Date: Fri, 12-Jun-87 10:50:00 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8706140445.AA17799 Posted: Fri Jun 12 10:50:00 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 14-Jun-87 18:36:27 EDT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 47 This is for a *SPECIALIST* in TeX driver for a QMS LASERGRAPHICS 800 on VAX VMS. We have a laser printer QMS LASERGRAPHICS 800 in Dowell Schlumberger Saint-Etienne. We now use the TeX version 2.0 and LaTeX 2.09. The driver for the QMS is called DVILG8. Unfortunatly it was designed to work with TeX 1.x. Its is not -as far as I know- a public domain driver. Here is a piece a of the header of its code (WEB) : % dvilg8.WEB % % This program is based on a generic driver written by Tomas Rokicki % and all rights are reserved. Modifications for the QMS-800 were % also made by Tomas Rokicki. % % Version 0.9 initial release: December, 1984 % Version 0.91 fixed several minor bugs, improved sections: January, 1985 % Version 0.92 fixed mem_req calculation, graphics inclusion: February, 1985 % Version 0.93 added hoffset and voffset input during dialog: February, 1985 I heard (I am not sure, because I do not have it) that the new QMS *800* driver comes with some interesting bugs : not possible to get a page in LANDSCAPE mode. Because this feature is the one we need and cannot have on our LN03s, I modified the old one to work with the new CM* fonts. It works well, excepted that it does not accept the downloaded fonts. I recreated a file RESIDENT.fnt for the new CM* fonts I want to be resident with the CRERES8.EXE program. Everything works fine, but DVILG8 acts as if they were no resident fonts. So it is VERY slow and creates huge *.BIT files containning all the fonts. It does not generate any error message. On the other hand it does landscape very well. I look closely at the (WEB) code and could not find where the problem could be. Has anybody modified this driver to make it understand that it should accept resident fonts ? By the way, are they other good (public domain or cheap) TeX 2.0 drivers for QMS 800 ? Thanks. Philippe JAMET E-Mail: jamet%m_dsavx1%sdr.slb.com@relay.cs.net (or may be) jamet%m_dsavx1%slb-doll.csnet@relay.cs.net Etudes et Fabrication DOWELL-SCHLUMBERGER Att. Philippe JAMET Z.I. de Molina la Chazotte B.P. 90 42003 Saint-Etienne CEDEX 1 (FRANCE)