YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("YATES, JOHN H.") (01/11/91)
I just installed the Documenter's Workbench (and laser printer support). The very first thing I tried failed. Invoking troff gives: troff: can't open tables for /usr/lib/font/devaps/DESC.out So I looked in /usr/lib/font and found: devX100/ devi10/ devpsc/ and yes DESC.out is in: /usr/lib/font/devpsc/DESC.out [I logged a call with SGI hotline 31 hours ago. I prodded them once, still nothing.] So, anyway, what gives? Should it be aps or psc or neither? Am I in for more surprises with these two products? John yates@c.chem.upenn.edu
olson@newmedia.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson) (01/12/91)
In <9101110410.AA20690@remote.dccs.upenn.edu> YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("YATES, JOHN H.") writes: | I just installed the Documenter's Workbench (and laser printer support). | The very first thing I tried failed. Invoking troff gives: | | troff: can't open tables for /usr/lib/font/devaps/DESC.out | | So I looked in /usr/lib/font and found: | | devX100/ devi10/ devpsc/ | and yes DESC.out is in: | /usr/lib/font/devpsc/DESC.out | | [I logged a call with SGI hotline 31 hours ago. I prodded them once, still | nothing.] | | So, anyway, what gives? Should it be aps or psc or neither? Am I in for more | surprises with these two products? | | John | yates@c.chem.upenn.edu devaps stuff isn't installed by default (automatic install) of the dwb package, since we found most people don't use it. Try installing dwb.sw.aps from your dwb tape or distribution directory.
msc@ramoth.esd.sgi.com (Mark Callow) (01/12/91)
In article <9101110410.AA20690@remote.dccs.upenn.edu>, YATES@C.CHEM.UPENN.EDU ("YATES, JOHN H.") writes: |> The very first thing I tried failed. Invoking troff gives: |> |> troff: can't open tables for /usr/lib/font/devaps/DESC.out |> |> So I looked in /usr/lib/font and found: |> |> devX100/ devi10/ devpsc/ |> and yes DESC.out is in: |> /usr/lib/font/devpsc/DESC.out |> |> So, anyway, what gives? Should it be aps or psc or neither? Am I in for more |> surprises with these two products? |> Device independent troff defaults to composing for the APS typesetter. Therefore just calling "troff" is going to make it look for the APS width tables. However since most of our customers don't have an APS, those width tables aren't installed by default. Laser printer support gives you the PostScript width tables (devpsc). But you have to invoke troff with appropriate flags to tell it to compose for PostScript (laserwriter) instead of the APS. Alternatively you can use another part of the laser printer support package: psroff. This is a font-end script which calls troff with the right flags for PostScript. Read the man page. -- From the TARDIS of Mark Callow msc@ramoth.sgi.com, ...{ames,decwrl}!sgi!msc "Spirits of genius are always opposed by mediocre minds" - Albert Einstein