rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (05/30/90)
> We have a Linotronic typesetter at University of Toronto and I would > be interested in hearing about user experiences with TeX and high > resolution output devices. I routinely print TeX jobs using full CM fonts at 1270 dpi on Linotronic printers. > In particular jobs fail regularly with a VM Error (out of memory) and > I am interested in hearing of others with similar experience and of ANY > possible solutions to this. Sounds like the printer driver you are using isn't intelligent about managing the memory of the Linotronic. The `dvips' driver available on Labrea (I recommend using 4.21 until we get all the bugs out of 5.0) works well at high resolution for two reasons: - It compresses the fonts so they don't take as much memory in the printer; 1270 dpi fonts typically take only a little more memory than the same fonts uncompressed at 300 dpi. - It is smart about calculating the memory available in the printer and automatically breaking the document up into pieces as necessary to get it to print. This depends on you having an accurate estimate of the amount of VM in your printer, but a simple vmstatus/show statement can get that. > 1270 dpi fonts, aside from eating disk space like chocolate chip cookies > are cumbersome to move around networks, and consume memory on the linotronic. > This causes most of the problems as far as I can determine. Oh, they ain't so bad. Wait until you start dealing with raster images. And then color raster images. -tom