wood@SU-CASCADE.ARPA.UUCP (06/18/86)
With 4.2bsd and the Adobe V1 Transcript package. For sometime we've noticed that certain .dvi files converted by dvi2ps and sent to a LaserWriter will printout all but the last page before jamming. the printer. Power cycling the printer is then the only thing that will free it. After this happens if you look in the printer log file the last entry is about a half page of random garbled characters. The problem appears to be due to the number of size of the loaded fonts. The last page (pages in reversed order) always contains a title page or chapter heading which uses a number of especially large characters. If the rest of the file has also used a number of different fonts it looks like loading these last few finally overwrites somethings in the LaserWriter and everything dies. If you output this final page seperately both sections will print successfully. Has anyone else seen this and is there a cure? To me a cure would be anything which prevents the printer from completely dying. -ernie Ernest Wood Center for Integrated Systems wood@su-glacier.ARPA Stanford University decwrl!glacier!wood Stanford, CA 94305 (415) 725-3708