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In article <3363@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
|In article <1992Apr03.160755.13148@brtph560.bnr.ca> psycho@brtpa25.bnr.ca (Paul Jezioranski) writes:
|>A 25 page man file took up almost 800k of disk space when I "psroff"ed it.
|>I checked out the file and it appears that psroff grid maps each character to
|>the page as follows:

|>Is there any way to reduce the size of the output file, or am I using an
|>outdated version of psroff??

|Can't tell without you telling us what version of psroff you're running.

|Turn on the optimizer.

I guess I should be a little clearer, sorry.

The psroff optimizer (introduced at psroff 2.0, PL5 I believe) will
coalesce words into single "show"'s.  You will see a size improvement
of at least three, and a print performance increase around a factor of
10.  Resulting in performance similar to groff and pscat/psdit(Transcript)

Turn on the optimizer.

Current rev is psroff 3.0, PL10.  Optimization is on by default (since PL7
I think).

Peter, don't abandon psroff yet.
-- 
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