colonel@gloria.UUCP (09/03/84)
[I am the Bug, I am the Bug, Everybody knows that I am the Bug] Go ahead and kludge the macro packages. Cut marks are useless on any printer that uses sheets instead of roll paper. We did it and have not regretted it. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel
acu@stat-l (Shoe) (09/07/84)
> Go ahead and kludge the macro packages. Cut marks are useless on > any printer that uses sheets instead of roll paper. Not exactly true. If you don't have ditroff and do have a Symbolics Laser Graphics Printer, the filter that converts CAT magic cookies to LGP magic cookies ("catlgp") demands the presence of cut marks to decide when to eject to a new page. (Not my fault, I didn't write it! (How does the Imagen software handle this?)) -- Mark Shoemaker /dev/shoe ...!pur-ee!pucc-k:acu mas@purdue Fear is our greatest limiter....
ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA (09/10/84)
From: Ron Natalie <ron@BRL-TGR.ARPA> Eeuuuuu gross. Expecting cut marks to cause the page feed? I would expect that the imagen just feeds a page every 11 inches. Simplicity itself. -Ron
phil@RICE.ARPA (09/10/84)
From: William LeFebvre <phil@RICE.ARPA> > Eeuuuuu gross. Expecting cut marks to cause the page feed? I would > expect that the imagen just feeds a page every 11 inches. Simplicity > itself. Too simple. Vanilla troff (the one that produces codes for the CAT/4) outputs some initial lead before the first page boundary. Unless you take the first tic mark as a reference point for the top of the document, all of your pages will be printed about a half inch (I'm not sure of the exact figure here) too low on the page. William LeFebvre Department of Computer Science Rice University <phil@Rice.arpa>
davel@dciem.UUCP (Dave Legg) (09/20/84)
We have an Imagen 5.480 laser printer, and it treats cut marks as data.
In one file I decided to get rid of them by putting
".rm CM" at the top of the file, this caused no problem to the Imagen and
made for nice clean pages. This was with the -ms package. I plan to add
the .rm to the initialazation macro in tmac.s
--
Dave Legg, DCIEM, Toronto, Ont. Canada. (416) 635-2065
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