fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) (02/26/89)
I want to make a DeskJet talk to ditroff. Anyone out there have
a driver for such an animal?
Thanks.
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Phil Hughes, SSC, Inc. P.O. Box 55549, Seattle, WA 98155 (206)FOR-UNIX
uw-beaver!tikal!ssc!fyl or uunet!pilchuck!ssc!fyl or attmail!ssc!fylwnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul) (02/27/89)
In article <1723@ssc.UUCP> fyl@ssc.UUCP (Phil Hughes) writes: >I want to make a DeskJet talk to ditroff. Anyone out there have >a driver for such an animal? >Thanks. If you can't find a driver for the DeskJet, you can always obtain JetRoff (from uunet!pcrat!jetroff), which is a LJ driver with full source, and modify it to drive the DJ. The author of Jetroff, Rick Richardson, has already stated that he doesn't think the DJ is suitable for typesetting, so he probably won't support it, but it probably is the closest you'll find out there. An early version of JetRoff was posted to c.s.m. a few months ago; to get the latest version you'll have to register and pay $50 for individual license, $100 for commercial license. -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: killer!wnp ESL: 62832882 DOMAIN: wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us TLX: 910-380-0585 EES PLANO UD
rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (02/27/89)
> The author of Jetroff, Rick Richardson, has already stated that he > doesn't think the DJ is suitable for typesetting, so he probably won't > support it, but it probably is the closest you'll find out there. Gee, TeX output looks quite good on the DeskJet. Of course, patience is required (two to six minutes a page) but some people don't have need for quantity; eighty pages a day is all they need. -tom
wnp@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Wolf Paul) (02/27/89)
In article <7228@polya.Stanford.EDU> rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) writes: >> The author of Jetroff, Rick Richardson, has already stated that he >> doesn't think the DJ is suitable for typesetting, so he probably won't >> support it, but it probably is the closest you'll find out there. > >Gee, TeX output looks quite good on the DeskJet. Of course, patience is >required (two to six minutes a page) but some people don't have need for >quantity; eighty pages a day is all they need. Is that using a Deskjet driver or a Laserjet driver? And I agree that it will probably not look bad -- better than a standard dot matrix printer -- and neither will troff output with an appropriate driver, but Rick just doesn't feel its worth his time and effort to support it. -- Wolf N. Paul * 3387 Sam Rayburn Run * Carrollton TX 75007 * (214) 306-9101 UUCP: killer!wnp ESL: 62832882 DOMAIN: wnp@killer.dallas.tx.us TLX: 910-380-0585 EES PLANO UD
rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (02/28/89)
>>Gee, TeX output looks quite good on the DeskJet. >Is that using a Deskjet driver or a Laserjet driver? A special DeskJet driver; fonts on the DeskJet are sufficiently different and brain-damaged that LaserJet drivers won't work if the use downloaded fonts. So you start slinging bits around . . . It's a great little printer, and it's very very popular. -tom