On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:07:25PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Hi Doug,
>
> Am 2007-03-16 10:22:16, schrieb Douglas Allan Tutty:
> > Have you tried LaTex? Sure a .tex file starts with a preamble but you
> > could have two files head.tex (preamble) and tail.tex (nd{document}).
> > Then cat head.tex file.txt tail.tex > file.tex, then latex file.tex then
> > dvips file.dvi. Then you have your file.ps.
>
> Nice idea, but LaTeX is to heavy on a server which must print
> several 1000 text/plain files...
>
> Do you have a better idea again?
>
> In general I have to print arround 4000-7000 pages per day...
>
Hi Michelle,
I've been away and can't remember the details of the thread so please
forgive any conflicts.
I've only started using LaTex (before that it was Lout) so haven't tried
to latex a large document and time it. What would happen if you took a
dedicated (older?) server whose job it was to take UTF files, and return
ps files? Then the regular print server could take those ps files and
print them.
Is it that LaTex takes too much processing power to generate a document
more beautiful than you need? What else can do it? Can groff handle
UTF-8?
I see it as a variation on the problem of the software takes too much
time. Two options: rewrite the software or give it more hardware.
Treat it like any other compute-bound problem.
7000 pages per day (24 hr) is 5 pages per minute. It takes far less
than a minute for me to LaTex a 30 page document on my Athlon. Tex wont
fit on the drive of my 486 to compare.
An interesting problem. Good luck.
Doug.
