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From: sutter (Bob Sutterfield)

A user in a department served by our VAX-11/750 under VMS v4.1 is about to
purchase a Xerox printer.  He will eventually be getting the new 4045, but
until that arrives, he will be using a 2700.  It will be on a DMA serial
port (on a Xyplex cluster, if you must know), as a spooled output device at
19200 baud.  He will eventually want to have some VAX-resident fonts for
downloading for special occasions, besides a few cartridge-resident for
speed and flexibility.

The first major use will be as a printer to be shared among many users on
DEC Rainbows and IBM PC's that all use locally-attached printers, and want
to be able to share one nice big print engine.  Eventually, we will probably
install TeX, move the 2700, and install it on a parallel (DMF-32) interface
as the VAX system printer.

What must I do about the print symbiont to get it to talk nicely to this?
If users are using local word-processing packages on their PC's, and I can
get their print file onto the VAX and into the queue, how should I coerce
the symbiont to ship out exactly the binary file that's referred to in the
queue?  Is there a special symbiont that I need that knows how to download
the appropriate fonts for a particular print job or page?  How about
changing from portrait to landscape for 132-wide DP-style jobs?

Answers to the above, and any other words of wisdom or warning would be
greatly appreciated.
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Human:	   Bob Sutterfield
	   Facilities Management Division
	   The Ohio State University Instruction & Research Computer Center
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           OCES VAX System Manager/Programmer (VMS)
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