Re: [Groff] Need some troubleshooting help

[Larry Kollar]

Good to see you again, Michael!

> I've a wierd problem I'm trying to track down.  Hopefully my  
> explanation will make sense.  First, some software versions:
> MacIntosh OS X version 10.4.5 running groff 1.19.1 and gv 3.6.1

Is that the version of groff that ships with OSX? Things *should* have 
changed for the better, but it used to be that recompiling groff was 
necessary to do anything besides format manpages.

> Linux Slackware version 10.2 with a 2.4.29 kernel, groff 1.17.2 and  
> gv 3.5.8
> The printing mechanism on the Linux box is LPRng version 3.9.0
> with ifhp-3.5.11

I don't think it matters, but what version(s) of Ghostscript are you using?

One of the most outstanding things I see in the diff file is that the 1.19.1 
version is specifying a default page size while the 1.17.2 version isn't. I 
wonder if the printer or the print daemon is getting confused by that.

One thing you might want to try, convert the output to PDF (using 
ps2pdf) before sending it to the Linux box -- gv should be able to open 
and print it.

-- Larry