On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:03:58PM +0200, Herbert Voss wrote: > Richard Heck wrote: > > Herbert Voss wrote: > >> Richard Heck wrote: > >> > >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] src]$ find /usr/share/texmf/dvips/ -name 'config.*' > >>> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.www > >>> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.download35 > >>> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.dfaxhigh > >>> /usr/share/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.builtin35 > >>> > >> these are _all_ config files and not printer files. > >> > >> dvips -P<config> > >> > >> eg dvips -Pcmz <file> > >> > >> to load the cm-super type 1 font. > >> > >> lpr -P<printer> is far different to the dvips command. > >> > > Yes, I understand this now, and was inferring the opposite from the > > existing code. If you check the box we're discussing, what you get, as > > JMarc said, is: > > dvips -Pmy_printer && lpr -Pmy_printer > > or something close enough. This is either (i) totally broken or (ii) is > > assuming that the user has config.* files with the extensions being the > > names of the printers s'he uses. > > > > So the question is what to do about this. Option (i): Kill the box. If a > > user wants to run dvips -Pwhatever, let h'er enter it into the Printer > > Command box. Option (ii): Keep the box, but add a tooltip along the > > lines I suggested last: Either "Check this box only if you have > > config.<printer> files installed for each printer you use." Or: "If you > > don't know what this does, you don't need it. (See info dvips for help.)" > > > config.<printer> is misleading. For example: config.pdf is a config file > to use always Type 1 fonts but I can print the ps file on _every_ printer
Granted. But what if you have 300, 600, and 1200 dpi printers? The "Adapt Output" thing let you adapt (sic!) the pk fonts to the printer. Otherwise, how would you do that? -- Enrico
