geoff@proper.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (02/08/84)
We have a Symbolics laser printer at our company, and some software that pretends to make it look like the famous c/a/t phototypesetter. Unfortunately, the laser printer uses 8-1/2 by 11 paper, while the phototypesetter uses paper from a roll. The -ms and -mm macros (and also the V7 -man macros) work fine with our simulation software, but the -man macros in S5 try to produce cut marks between each page, which royally confuses the poor old laser printer. I have found the place in the -man macros where the cut marks are produced, but all of my attempts at curing the problem have failed miserably. I have tried removing the macro that produces the cut marks and removing the trap that invokes that macro--neither worked. Does anyone have a fix for this problem?
gwyn%brl-vld@sri-unix.UUCP (02/10/84)
From: Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn@brl-vld> Maybe you should get the Symbolics software/firmware fixed. I use the UNIX System V typesetting software and troff macros UNMODIFIED with our Imagen laser printer, and all that happens "wrong" is that the Imagen console logs some "glyph off page" messages for cut marks. However, it does not get confused.
urban@trwspp.UUCP (02/22/84)
Before someone criticizes my grammar, substitute "your device driver" for "you're device driver". Careless, but not illiterate. Mike