dac@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Daniel Christian) (11/08/88)
When I generated and printed (part of) the Xlib documentation, everything was shifted left. About 3 to 4 characters would be lost to the printers margin. The index worked fine. This is not the way to print over 200 pages of documentation.... Has anyone else run into this? I was running psroff on a Mach (BSD 4.3+) machine. I had the same results on two different Postscript printers. Editing most of the pages out of the postscript file didn't help (i.e. the printer isn't choaking on the size). -Dan Christian dac@ri.cmu.edu
earle@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Greg Earle) (11/09/88)
In article <3508@pt.cs.cmu.edu> dac@f.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Daniel Christian) writes: >When I generated and printed (part of) the Xlib documentation, >everything was shifted left. About 3 to 4 characters would be lost to >the printers margin. The index worked fine. > >This is not the way to print over 200 pages of documentation.... > >Has anyone else run into this? I was running psroff on a Mach (BSD >4.3+) machine. I had the same results on two different Postscript >printers. Editing most of the pages out of the postscript file didn't >help (i.e. the printer isn't choaking on the size). Well, I haven't encountered it (yet), but as a temporary workaround (at least if you have a Good Ol' LaserWriter), you might consider changing the actual printer margins inside the printer to shift-right everything for the duration of the print run (Use `setprintermargins' if you have TranScript), then set it back to what it was before (presumably `0 0') afterwards. Of course, if you don't have access to the printer port device, or have the chance of having someone else's jobs interspersed with yours, this is much more difficult ... -- Greg Earle earle@Sun.COM Sun Microsystems poseur!earle@mahendo.JPL.NASA.GOV Los Angeles Consulting earle%mahendo@elroy.JPL.NASA.GOV ...!{cit-vax,ames}!elroy!poseur!earle ...!sun!tsunami!valley!poseur!earle