Re: psroff generates huge files

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From: Peter da Silva
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1992 20:17

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In article <3395@ecicrl.ocunix.on.ca> clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
> That much?  Eeep!

I don't see a 60% savings that much of a big deal. Personally, I don't bother
even turning on optimization in psroff. I'm more interested in groff for the
font support... and you can't do much about that except convert "\f" requests
into some magic using your bell-system-logo overstrike + strategic "'fp"
requests.

Actually, if you could make the 4-position font limit vanish I'd blow off
groff completely. I don't *WANT* to install G++.

> Postscript's space width is 1/3rd
> narrower (12/432 @ 6 point versus 9/432 @ 6 point))

Doesn't that depend on the font?
-- 
/F{findfont exch scalefont setfont}def /S{moveto show}def /T{/Times-Roman F}def
8 T(Ferranti International Controls Corporation)24 28 S(+1 713 274 5180)24 12 S
(Sugar Land, TX  77487-5012)24 20 S 12 /Courier F(`-_-')320 32 S( 'U` )320 16 S
12 T(Peter da Silva)24 36 S 16 T(Have you hugged your wolf today?)358 24 S

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