[comp.text] pic problems in eroff

colleen@telesoft.telesoft.com (Colleen Wirth @second) (08/22/89)

Greetings collected eroff minds,

I'm using Elan's troff, eroff, on a Sun3/60 to print documentation. 
Unfortunately I'm having trouble printing full-page "pic" diagrams on an 
HP-2000.  Using portrait mode, half-page or smaller diagrams within
text files are not a problem, but full-page diagrams abort after
printing only the left-hand side of the page (see below).

             _____________
            | xxxxx       |
            | -----       |
            | |           |    "xxxxx" denotes the left half of the
            | -----       |    header and footer.  The rest denotes
            |     |       |    the incomplete pic diagram.
            | -----       |
            | |           |
            | -----       |
            | xxxxx       |
             -------------

The problem does not seem to be a printer memory problem.  The soft
fonts we have loaded are at the minimum 270K.

Thanks for any help or suggestions,
Colleen

johnk@opel.UUCP (John Kennedy) (08/22/89)

In article <460@telesoft.telesoft.com> colleen@telesoft.telesoft.com (Colleen Wirth @second) writes:
>
>I'm using Elan's troff, eroff, on a Sun3/60 to print documentation. 
>Unfortunately I'm having trouble printing full-page "pic" diagrams on an 
>HP-2000.
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Tried to email this, but it bounced.

Just a guess, but what's the size of the lp spool file on the pic|eroff output?

I guess Suns don't have the ulimit problem that we Sys5'ers have, but could
it be some spooling-related problem?  Would it be worth a try  to

             pic | eroff -X > /dev

John
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John Kennedy                     johnk@opel.UUCP
Second Source, Inc.
Annapolis, MD