laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/21/85)
From: Brian Reid <reid@Glacier> Howard Trickey, a pleasant young friend of the TEX group, says "I've been informed that no formatter was involved in producing the samples we looked at." Following his lead, I just sat down with Emacs and created an Impress file (for Imagen printers), a PostScript file (for Adobe printers), and a Press file (for Xerox printers). I then sent these files to their respective printers. I am pleased to report that the Imagen printer got a segmentation fault and needed to be rebooted, the Xerox Dover just burped and didn't print anything, and the Adobe printer printed more or less what I wanted it to, though I counted the character widths wrong and the last few letters of each line ran off the page. I conclude from this that all printers work better when you use them with formatters. I will be pleased to instruct anyone in the TEX group on the use of my favorite formatter in case they have forgotten how to use theirs; My favorite formatter (unlike theirs) is able to produce output files for all of these printers, using comparable algorithms. Howard, you're too nice a guy to be hanging out with these Imagen lovers. Don't let them corrupt you. I've run out of 1984 Schedule CI forms.
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/21/85)
From: Orr.pa@Xerox.ARPA Maybe you should have tried an Interpress file and sent it to a current Xerox printer rather than an old prototype designed for a different environment . . . Keep the apples in the apple basket . . . ~Julian~
laser-lovers@uw-beaver (05/23/85)
From: ihnp4!utzoo!henry@uw-beaver.arpa
> I've run out of 1984 Schedule CI forms.
There's something funny going on here, since Brian has his own LaserWriter --
how can he run out? Obviously :-) the forms were really run on an Imagen
somewhere, and he hasn't had an opportunity lately to sneak in at midnight
to run off some more. :-) :-)
Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
{allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry