richard@octel.UUCP (Richard Karasik) (04/13/91)
Im having problems using laserjets with various formatters. The line printer interface command eventually cats the files to a program called utod. This utod prints stuff out on the laserjet, but I can find no documentation about utod. IF I print microsoft word documents, things look ok. If I try to print say xroff, or troff documents things look weird -the letters i and l are missing. Typically the purveyors of 'roff alikes tell me that I have to set opost cs8 and the like. I do, but it appears to have no effect. I think because possibly utod is "metabolically disadvantaged" in this regard ... I set the cs8 etc using lpadmin commands -is there another where to do this to gain better effect?. Thanks Richard -- |UUCP richard@octel.com |VOICE (408) 942-6372 | Press 1 then divide your age by 6 - press star, then flash 3 times ....... | (No you cant get a message to me that way -but its fun watchin' you)
clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) (04/16/91)
In article <454@octelb.octel.UUCP> richard@octel.UUCP (Richard Karasik) writes: |Im having problems using laserjets with various formatters. The line printer |interface command eventually cats the files to a program called utod. |This utod prints stuff out on the laserjet, but I can find no documentation about |utod. IF I print microsoft word documents, things look ok. If I try to print say |xroff, or troff documents things look weird -the letters i and l are missing. |Typically the purveyors of 'roff alikes tell me that I have to set |opost cs8 and the like. I do, but it appears to have no effect. I think because |possibly utod is "metabolically disadvantaged" in this regard ... |I set the cs8 etc using lpadmin commands -is there another where to do this to |gain better effect?. If xroff or your troff downloads fonts, you really want "-opost", not "opost", and replace utod with cat. According to others, utod converts newlines to newlines and carriage returns - which will bugger up font downloads. As will "opost". -- Chris Lewis, Phone: (613) 832-0541, Internet: clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca UUCP: uunet!mitel!cunews!latour!ecicrl!clewis; Ferret Mailing List: ferret-request@eci386; Psroff (not Adobe Transcript) enquiries: psroff-request@eci386 or Canada 416-832-0541. Psroff 3.0 in c.s.u soon!