hi, myself Himanshu.... i have a project in whcih i need to get
the width
tables from HP laserjet fonts....ie fonts which are stored inside the
laserjet......
i have windows as operating system and hp 4250 laser
printer....i
have downloaded gsroff and psroff 3.0 .... was not able to install
Psroff as
it contains ".Z" files.... :(
Hello Himanshu,
I don't think you need psroff to do your printing. There are three
ways you can print to a LaserJet:
1) Use '-Tlj4' in your command line (like 'groff -ms -Tlj4 myfile.t |
lpr). This method uses the native LaserJet language and fonts and is
fastest. The width tables are already made for the most common HP
fonts. :-)
2) Print to a PostScript file, and use GhostScript to convert it to
LaserJet format (like 'groff -ms myfile.t | gswin32c -sDEVICE=ljet4 -
| lpr'). This method is slower, but is more general.
3) Print to a PostScript file, convert to PDF, and use Acrobat Reader
to send it to the printer (like 'groff -ms myfile.t > out.ps; ps2pdf
out.ps out.pdf'). This is slowest of all, but lets you check the
output for pagination and other errors before using up paper. I use
this method on MacOSX, since my work requires PDF output anyway.
Hope that helps....
--
Larry Kollar k o l l a r @ a l l t e l . n e t
Unix Text Processing: "UTP Revival"
http://unixtext.org/
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