Re: [Groff] help required regarding groff/psroff

[Larry Kollar]

> hi,  myself Himanshu.... i have a project in whcih i need to get  
> the width
> tables from HP laserjet fonts....ie fonts which are stored inside the
> laserjet......
>         i have windows as operating system and hp 4250 laser  
> printer....i
> have downloaded gsroff and psroff 3.0 .... was not able to install  
> Psroff as
> it contains ".Z" files.... :(

Hello Himanshu,

I don't think you need psroff to do your printing. There are three  
ways you can print to a LaserJet:

1) Use '-Tlj4' in your command line (like 'groff -ms -Tlj4 myfile.t |  
lpr). This method uses the native LaserJet language and fonts and is  
fastest. The width tables are already made for the most common HP  
fonts. :-)

2) Print to a PostScript file, and use GhostScript to convert it to  
LaserJet format (like 'groff -ms myfile.t | gswin32c -sDEVICE=ljet4 -  
| lpr'). This method is slower, but is more general.

3) Print to a PostScript file, convert to PDF, and use Acrobat Reader  
to send it to the printer (like 'groff -ms myfile.t > out.ps; ps2pdf  
out.ps out.pdf'). This is slowest of all, but lets you check the  
output for pagination and other errors before using up paper. I use  
this method on MacOSX, since my work requires PDF output anyway.

Hope that helps....

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