hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) (09/22/88)
I am having problems using the cminch font that comes on the Unix TeX
distribution. It works fine using Beebe's dvijep program for the
laserjet-plus, but won't work on the imagen. Beebe's imagen driver just
gives a blank page, while Chris Torek's (?) iptex program prints a mess
(it looks like some of the scan lines are vertically displaced by about
1.25 inches). Is this something that I am going to have to live with, or
is it fixable?
g.
George Hartzell (303) 492-4535
MCD Biology, University of Colorado-Boulder, Boulder, CO 80309
hartzell@Boulder.Colorado.EDU ..!{ncar,nbires}!boulder!hartzellchris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (09/22/88)
In article <3616@boulder.Colorado.EDU> hartzell@boulder.Colorado.EDU (George Hartzell) writes: >I am having problems using the cminch font that comes on the Unix TeX >distribution. ... won't work on the imagen. Beebe's imagen driver just >gives a blank page, while Chris Torek's (?) iptex program prints a mess >(it looks like some of the scan lines are vertically displaced by about >1.25 inches). Is this something that I am going to have to live with, or >is it fixable? Check the revision of the software on the Imagen itself. Anything older than about three years has some serious bugs in the rasterising code. More recent revisions have less serious bugs or no bugs (I had a sample page, printed on, I think, rev 2.0) that mysteriously began duplicating output lines about two-thirds of the way down the page, with increasing density of duplication towards the end. The last few lines were almost solid black. Printing the same file a second time (after power cycling the Imagen, which had wedged) produced perfect output. One reliable way to crash old software was to define a glyph with zero pixels (height=width=0, adv.width>0). (Of course, it is possible that the latest software has some interesting bugs too. I think we are running version 2.6 of Imagen's software, but this is from memory: the machines are at the University and I am at home.) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris
chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (09/24/88)
In article <13686@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote something thoroughly unreadable.
The essense of it was that cminch should print, and that the output
George Hartzell received implies a bug in the Imagen.
We are in fact running Imagen `System Version 3.3 Rev B IP/II'.
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