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Re: Printing troubles with LaTeX on Amiga PasTeX 12a

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From: Dale Gold
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 10:10
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hessmann@r2d2.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) said:
> In article <1991Jun9.024332.22888@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au writes:
>>  I am having troubles printing out with LaTeX. [...] However, when I print
>>it out, I get the stuff coming off the right hand side of my
>>printer. [...]
>> I am using the following to print: "dviprint -d 2 -o 1 -z 360 new.dvi".
>                                                          ^^^^^^
> Please do not use the '-z' option, if you don't exactly know, what it does.
> Normaly you don't need this option. Only if you want make such crasy things
> like 'print four pages at one paper' is this a usefull option.

One of my 1st 'failures' with PasTeX was to use the wrong -z setting, and 
I ended up with a page the size of a large postage stamp.  I was amazed to
see that it was still readable!  This could be very handy for disk labels
and things like that, too.
 
Thank you Georg, for a wonderful program! 

>   hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de		hessmann@unipas.uucp

Dale
dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz
Korokoro, New Zealand
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From: dgold@basso.actrix.gen.nz (Dale Gold)
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Subject: Re: Printing troubles with LaTeX on Amiga PasTeX 12a
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