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Article #402Re: psroff generates huge files
From: Vidiot
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 04:18
Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1992 04:18
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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:
<
[...]
<
<The words in the sentence above are "of time, people have been". This seems
<very wasteful when compared to another postscript file I have that does
<sentences/paragraphs like this:
<
<(of time, people have been) 72 712 T
<
<Is there any way to reduce the size of the output file, or am I using an
<outdated version of psroff??
I don't know what the latest version of psroff does (Chris will let us know),
but maybe you could change over to groff, which does what you want and gives
you 100% DWB functions and a few things more.
Personally I believe that old troff programs should be dumped for DWB compatible
programs. Psroff does work with DWB programs as well.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!astroatc!vidiot!brown From: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: psroff generates huge files Message-ID: <3234@vidiot.UUCP> Date: 7 Apr 92 04:18:21 GMT Article-I.D.: vidiot.3234 References: <1992Apr03.160755.13148@brtph560.bnr.ca> Reply-To: brown@vidiot.UUCP (Vidiot) Organization: Vidiot's Hangout Lines: 27