On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 11:58:36AM -0500, m hobgood wrote: > Thanks for the help. I have found the problem. No bugs, just an > apparent > page size problem. > > Groff 1.19.1 does add the lines: > %%BeginFeature: *PageSize Default > << /PageSize [ 595 842 ] /ImagingBBox null >> setpagedevice > %%EndFeature > > When these lines are commented out or removed, the Linux box works as > expected. With these lines in, even doing cat troff.example.ps > / > dev/lp0 is broken. > > However, it is not the lines themselves that is the problem. The root > problem is the 595 842. If I change these to 612 792 then things > work, even with the cat command. So, I'm assuming the values being > used are for A4 paper. > > Which, if that is so, means that the default groff that comes with > Mac OS X version 10.4.5 was compiled for A4, not US letter. To check > this, I will get a copy of groff 1.19.1 and compile it for the Mac > using letter for the default and see what happens. Unfortunately, the > laserjet won't handle A4 paper, even if I could find it.
I just checked my 10.4.6 install and the shipped version of groff is 1.19.1 and it does default to A4 paper size. Specifying -dpaper=letter on the command line does not work properly either, I still get A4 numbers in the /PageSize, but the documents are formatted differently. I'm doing this remotely and haven't looked at the rendered output yet, just noticing that diff -c shows a lot of differences, similar to what I see when I run the same tests on my NetBSD box, which does set the /PageSize correctly. I'll grab a new groff out of darwinports and see if it does a better job. -- Michael Parson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list Groff@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
