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Article #2071troff on non-laser printers
From: Patrick Stickler RC 910
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 10:59
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 1990 10:59
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Does anyone know if troff (and not merely nroff) can be used with any inexpensive dot-matrix or ink jet printers? The particular printers that I have in mind are the HP Deskjet or Cannon BJ-10e. What sort of graphics emulation is necessary to get 'reasonable' output? Epson FX, IBM Proprinter (X-24E)...? Can the HP Deskjet emulate an HP Laserjet? Please no suggestions to use some other typesetting software (e.g. TeX). I have to use troff and need some inexpensive way to get 'local' draft copies of documents. I need 'true' troff output - the differences between nroff and troff are too great. If anyone has had experience with using troff on a non-laser printer, I would *very* much appreciate any advice you could offer. Thanks, //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Patrick Stickler Nokia Research Center stickler@rc.nokia.fi (BIX:stickler) University of Helsinki stickler@hylka.helsinki.fi ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!mit-eddie!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!pepper!stickler From: stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910) Newsgroups: comp.text Subject: troff on non-laser printers Message-ID: <294@pepper.rc.nokia.fi> Date: 12 Nov 90 10:59:34 GMT Reply-To: stickler@rc.nokia.fi (Patrick Stickler RC 910) Organization: Nokia Research Center, Finland Lines: 21