rusty@garnet.berkeley.edu (06/21/89)
I have installed Adobe Transcript on a DECstation 3100 running Ultrix 3.0 and when a user uses the ptroff command (it uses old troff and runs its output through pscat to translate the C/A/T output into postscript) they get the error message Non-numeric character in font file /usr/local/transcript/lib/troff.font/Times/ftR (maybe non-ASCII font file). We've tracked it down to /usr/bin/troff that's producing the message. Since the ftXX font files are supposed to be binary data this seems like a curious error message (has DEC modified /usr/bin/troff to use ascii width tables?). (1) Does anybody know what is going on? (2) How can we get troff to work on the ds3100 with a postscript printer? -- -------------------------------------- rusty c. wright rusty@violet.berkeley.edu ucbvax!violet!rusty