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From: piet@ruuinf (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Large postscript files to a laserwriter
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Date: 22 Feb 89 13:18:36 GMT
References: <1936@goanna.oz>
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Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland
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In-reply-to: isaac@goanna.oz (Isaac Balbin)

In article <1936@goanna.oz>, isaac@goanna (Isaac Balbin) writes:
 `I feel sure many others have experienced this, I am curious,
 `however, how they deal with it --- under Unix.
 `I use Rokicki's dvi2ps translator from TeX to postscript.
 `Indeed, the same thing happens for dvi2ps (by Holtz and Senn) in the
 `standard distribution of TeX and I recall it also happened in the old
 `days when I had to convert ditroff to postscript.
 `What happens? After a certain amount of processing, something overflows
 `and the rest of the large job does not print and finds its way to the great
 `big bit-bucket in the sky.

This is usually caused by the large amount of font bitmaps that get
downloaded. I have a modified version of dvi2ps that (together with several
other nice things) tries to keep track how much VM is left free in the
laserwriter. If the amount is too small, it does not download characters
but it just sends them as a one-time bitmap. Actually this depends also on
the size of the bitmap, so large characters are never downloaded. The
various parameters can be redefined as #define's.

It does also have page selection.

I can even print GNU manuals without any problem :=)

There are a number of sites in the USA that have it for FTP and I could
post it (Where?). It is 130KB compressed/btoa'ed.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-30-531806. piet@cs.ruu.nl (mcvax!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet)