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From: jjc@jclark.COM (James Clark)
Subject: output format in grefer
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 09:01:35 GMT

   In what file can we find the format in which grefer prints out a bibliography
   entry, and, more to the point, how can we modify the format of the output?
   I.e., is there an option we can give so that the format will be found in a
   file we name?  And, where can we find instructions on how to build that file?
   We have pored over the man page for grefer, to no avail.

The format of grefer output is documented in the `Macro Interface'
section of the man page.  The printed appearance of the references is
under the control of troff macros: if you want to modify the
appearance of the references, you will need to modify these macros.
You might want to use the groff -ms macros; the refer support (in the
ref module) is designed to be particularily easy to modify.

   We apologize for our ignorance, since this is a "bug" group, not a "help" 
   group, but we also don't know of a "help" group for groff.

bug-groff is the right place to ask questions about groff.

James Clark
jjc@jclark.com

Newsgroups: gnu.groff.bug
From: grover@mighty-joe.isri.unlv.edu (Kevin Grover)
Subject: Re: Retraction re 'div'
Reply-To: grover@isri.unlv.edu
Organization: Information Science Research Institute (UNLV-ISRI)
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:13:59 GMT

In article <9207251241.0.UUL1.3#5127@aladdin.com>, ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch) writes:
) From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
) Subject: Retraction re 'div'
) Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 92 12:41:06 PDT
) 
) A recent poster claimed that Ghostscript's 'div' operator incorrectly
) produced an integer result when dividing two integers with no
) remainder, e.g.
) 	40 10 div ==
) prints
) 	4
) 
) The poster was wrong.  The result of 'div' is always a real.
) However, Ghostscript, unlike some other PostScript language
) interpreters, may print a real number with no fractional part without
) the decimal point.
) 
) I suppose it would be better if Ghostscript always printed reals with
) a decimal point, since that would guarantee that printing out a real
) and reading it back in again would produce a real rather than an
) integer, but since all operators in the PostScript language that
) accept reals also accept integers, printing reals without a decimal
) point cannot cause trouble in this respect.
) 
) Bottom line: I'm not going to bother changing the print routine (I
) just use sprintf with a %g format) unless someone can show me a real
) file on which this difference causes the wrong thing to happen.
) 

Well, I'm the original poster of the "difference".  I reason I know
about it is because I program I wrote using GhostScript did not work
on at least two other systems.  The reason: the extra ".0" that the
other systems included overflowed the buffer I was using the "cws" the
number to a string.

I posted a response to a request in comp.lang.postscript for a
"compress rose".  There were two replies saying that it didn't work,
there was a rangecheck error on the cvs command.  It ran the program
on a NeXT, and sure enough the program was there.  So, I added in a
"cvi" command and all was well.

This piece of code works in GS:
	50 10 div 2 string cvs
but returns "rangecheck" error on at least a NeXT and a SUN with NeWS
and at least 1 other system (I can' remember the other reply to my post).

Personally, I think the way gs handles it is cleaner.  I just wanted
to warn people of the difference.

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it (David Vincenzetti)
Subject: BUG with GRAYSCALE monitors
Keywords: bug
Organization: Computer Science Dep. - Milan University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 09:32:27 GMT

I have just compiled and installed the 2.4.1 version of ghostscript.
I am using hp9000s700 with HPUX 8.05. It compiled all right but it
seems that gs is unable to display .ps files when using a grayscale
monitor. With B/W xterminals it is all right (model 700RX), but when
I use the grayscale console of my Apollo hp720 all I see is a black
image since it is using a black foreground upon a black background.

Any hint? I would like to force it using two colors or something.
Images like escher.ps and golfer.ps are nicely displayed with neat
gray-colors but it fails displaying chess.ps or any B/W text.

Many thanks in advance.
-- 
David Vincenzetti  -*-  vince@ghost.dsi.unimi.it, +39-2-5500639[12]
                        Public Key Available by finger(1)


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: dingbat@diku.dk (Niels Skov Olsen)
Subject: How to use A4 with GS 2.4.1 and HP III ?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 13:02:56 GMT

When I print a page on my LJ III the top is clipped and the page seems
too short. The only device installed in the makefile is ljet3.dev.
I have tried to adjust the page size and margin settings for this
device in gdevjet.c but with no luck. I made following changes:

	#define WIDTH_10THS 84       (was 85)
	#define HEIGHT_10THS 117     (was 110)

This change made the page a little longer. For the gs_ljet3_device I 
tried increasing the 4 margin settings, but that didn't seem to have
any effect on the output.

I built GS under Linux with gcc 2.2.2 with no problems at all.

Any ideas anyone ?

Niels


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: New Ghostscript "support" policy
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 13:18:08 GMT

Because Ghostscript has become so popular, I'm having to adopt a new
and more restrictive policy regarding questions and requests for
help.  As of August 15, 1992, Aladdin Enterprises (that's me) will
only respond to questions if:

	- You are running the most recent version of Ghostscript
(which is now 2.4.1, and on that date should be 2.5).  There will be
a 2-week grace period following the release of each new version.

	- You obtained Ghostscript either from the Internet or
directly from Aladdin -- i.e., not from Compuserve, GEnie, a
shareware house, a BBS, etc.

This is an "only if", not an "if and only if", i.e., I can't promise
to answer questions even if you do both of the above.

I'll continue to read gnu.ghostscript.bug and answer questions from
time to time.

If you need support for Ghostscript, I suggest you contact one of the
organizations or individuals that provide contract support for GNU
software such as Cygnus.  They don't currently support Ghostscript,
but if enough people express an interest, they might do it.  If
anyone else is interested in providing contract (or free) support for
Ghostscript and would like me to pass along their name to people
wanting this, I'd be happy to do so.  If you represent an
organization with many people using Ghostscript, I may be able to
provide support under contract myself: please contact me directly if
you want to discuss this.

Commercial Ghostscript licensees receive support as part of their
contract, and the "latest version" restriction does not apply to them.

Thanks to everyone for helping Ghostscript become successful.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."
From: T.KRichel@lut.ac.uk
Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
Subject: Dimensions for gif
Keywords: dimension, gif, bm2font
Date: 23 Jul 92 20:16:17 GMT
Reply-To: T.Krichel@lut.ac.uk (Thomas Krichel)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Loughborough University, UK.

Here is a beginners's question.

I want to use ghostscript to input ps graphs into a document. 
The procedure is as follows. Uniras generates postscript. Ghostscript 
2.4.1 (DOS) makes a gif out of postscript file. Bm2font converts 
the gif into TeX fonts. TeX formats the document. emTeX's dvidrv
drives produces the hardcopy.

I agree that this procedure is a bit involved. Its main advantage
is that I can actually preview the graph. Note also that dvips
is not an alternative for me.

My problem is that I would like the picture to be exactly 6.25in
wide (European A4 - 2in margin). I have instructed Uniras
to do that, but for I do not know how to interpret its output,
I am not sure that it works.

The next step is to give the correct instructions to ghostscript.
Here I tried -r300x300 at first (my printer is 300dpi, and
bm2font will generate the corresponding fonts). The resulting TeX
box is overfull.

Then I tried -r300x300 -g1875x1875. The resulting box 
is only 200 and something printer points, and the upper
part of the graph is missing.

My questions are

** Should I add a preamble to the ps file to ensure that the 
   width is 6.25in, and how does this preamble look like?
 
** What dimensions should I give to ghostscript?

I would be most grateful for any answer to that problem. Please
reply directly. I will summarize if need there is.


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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: richard@ee.byu.edu (Richard Christensen)
Subject: PS error in gs2.4.1
Organization: Brigham Young University, Provo UT USA
Distribution: gnu
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:19:24 GMT

I wrote an epsf file on a NeXT and viewed it with their
PS viewer and everything was fine.

When I tried gs 2.4.1, the white square with a white border
on top of a black background no longer was showing.  Just 
black showed with part of a white line in it.

When I tried gs 2.3, it worked correctly.  Of course,
the versions of ghostview also showed the same problem.

Why would a later version have this problem?


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: hargrove@ramirez.mitre.org (Paul H. Hargrove)
Subject: Epson 9-pin driver with 240x216 resolution?
Keywords: epson driver
Organization: Mitre Corporation, McLean, VA
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 17:00:52 GMT

I have recently compiled and installed Ghostscript 2.4.1 and am very
pleased with it.  I do, however, have one question (with 2 parts).

part 1:
I noticed in the comments in the b&w epson printer driver, that the
ability of many/most of the epson 9-pin printers to do 216 dpi vertically
by using fractional vertical feeds was not implemented.  I was wondering
if there was an updated gdevepsn.c that could do this.  I am very pleased
with the output on a laserjet, but find the 240x72 resolution of my
epson printer to be less than ideal.  Even the 6 passes per line required
to get 240x216 from my epson is faster than the 'floppy net' connection
I have to a laserjet (i.e. write file to floppy and carry it to another
machine to use the laserjet.  Now it is a walk across the hall, but when
I return to school it will be 1/2 mile uphill and cost me $0.15/page.)

part 2:
If such a driver does not exist, I may try to write one myself.  I took
a look at the existing driver, and noticed that there is more to it than
I had thought.  If I must write the driver myself, is there a guide I
could get to writing one, or must I try 'vi gdev*.c' as my tutorial?

--------
Paul H. Hargrove, speaking for myself.

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: mark@cres1.anu.edu.au (Mark Greenaway)
Subject: HELP with pstoppm
Organization: CRES, Australian National University
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 07:17:30 GMT

HELP someone.  How do you use pstoppm.ps.  I am using gs24 on Sun under SunOS 4.1.1



Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: sysgaertner@cygnus.frm.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (M. Gaertner, FRM, TH Darmstadt, Germany)
Subject: Cannot start GS for VMS
Reply-To: sysgaertner@cygnus.frm.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de
Organization: Fachbereichsrechner Maschinenbau, TH Darmstadt, Germany
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:37:35 GMT

Hello GNUers...
after a big fight with the VMS-CC.MAK or better with it's result, I
finally made it...
Well, but!
After starting GS, I find it in an infinite loop. It probably has 
something to do with the fonts but I don't know for sure.
Let's look at the screen:

$ GS "-sOUTPUTFILE=TEST.DAT" TEST.PS
Initializing...  Unrecoverable error: invalidfont in --nostringval--
Operand stack:
    NullFont gs_fonts.ps gconfig.ps gs_statd.ps
unrecoverable error: undefined in quit
Operand stack:
    NullFont gs_fonts.ps gconfig.ps gs_statd.ps
unrecoverable error: undefined in quit

and so on and so on.
The GS-Program NEVER accesses a font file, the last file accessed is 
indeed the gs_fonts.ps !

Another error (I fixed it shorthand) was in GCONFIG.PS where I received
an unexpected interpreter error -21 with .copypage . I just commented
the line /.copypage etc. out and the program went on.

So, what's going on here. I have no guess what causes this error and no 
idea to fix it up.

Back to my problems compiling it: I wanted other devices than X11, so I 
made a GCONFIG.H with epson and GIF8. Well, everytime the GS started it
bombed out with ACCESS VIOLATION. Examining the code brought me to the 
point: The GCONFIG.OBJ had the wrong pointer to the gx_device-structure 
for epson. After many retries a newer version suddenly made it, don't 
ask me why...

So please answer quick, since I darely need this program on my MyVax!!
Thanks in advance,


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                TH Darmstadt, W. Germany
	     Rechnergruppe FB 16-Maschinenbau
      SYSGAERTNER@CYGNUS.FRM.MASCHINENBAU.TH-DARMSTADT.DE
      Phone: Germany, (0)6151/16 5145

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: ghost@aladdin.COM (L. Peter Deutsch)
Subject: Re: div bug/difference?
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 06:43:28 GMT

In
<9207250542.AA04776@cookie-crisp>
<1992Jul23.183403.2881@unlv.edu>, Kevin Grover observes:

> 	40 10 div	--->  4		in GhostScript 2.4.1 (SunOS 4.1.1)
> while
> 	40 10 div	--->  4.0	on NeXT and on a SPARC under NeWS
> I.e. GhostScript returns and Integer while other PS interps return a
> real.  It is easy enough to fix but I thought I would point it out
> anyway.  (On the off chance that anyone cares).

Ghostscript is wrong: I didn't read the Red Book carefully enough.
This will be fixed in 2.5.  Thanks for pointing it out.

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
ghost@aladdin.com, ...decwrl!aladdin!ghost ; 415-322-0103 voice ; no fax yet
	    "Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery."


Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: isw@vnet.ibm.com (Ian S Worthington)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0
Organization: GNUs Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 00:56:50 GMT

In <f0klwx-.rcain@netcom.com> Robert Cain writes:
>.
>.
>
>I'm going after a native port when I finally get a complete gnu development
>system on my OS/2 system and that is taking some time.  Will post when
>I have a port.

Bob --

Thanks for your reply.  Would be most interested in receiving a copy of
your port when its done - I've only got the IBM OS/2 compiler here, so
I've rather shied away from doing one myself, what with my shaky 'C', but
I hear that Watcom also have one out now which, if I understand the
GhostScript docs correctly, should be compatable as-is (or 'more-or-
less-is...).

Ian S Worthington
ALCS Development

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: dwex@mtgzfs3.ATt.COM (David E Wexelblat)
Subject: Re: Epson 9-pin driver with 240x216 resolution?
Keywords: epson driver
Organization: AT&T
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 19:53:57 GMT

In article <1992Jul20.170052.19637@linus.mitre.org> hargrove@ramirez.mitre.org (Paul H. Hargrove) writes:
> I have recently compiled and installed Ghostscript 2.4.1 and am very
> pleased with it.  I do, however, have one question (with 2 parts).
> 
> part 1:
> I noticed in the comments in the b&w epson printer driver, that the
> ability of many/most of the epson 9-pin printers to do 216 dpi vertically
> by using fractional vertical feeds was not implemented.  I was wondering
> if there was an updated gdevepsn.c that could do this.  I am very pleased
> with the output on a laserjet, but find the 240x72 resolution of my
> epson printer to be less than ideal.  Even the 6 passes per line required
> to get 240x216 from my epson is faster than the 'floppy net' connection
> I have to a laserjet (i.e. write file to floppy and carry it to another
> machine to use the laserjet.  Now it is a walk across the hall, but when
> I return to school it will be 1/2 mile uphill and cost me $0.15/page.)
> 
> part 2:
> If such a driver does not exist, I may try to write one myself.  I took
> a look at the existing driver, and noticed that there is more to it than
> I had thought.  If I must write the driver myself, is there a guide I
> could get to writing one, or must I try 'vi gdev*.c' as my tutorial?
> 
> --------
> Paul H. Hargrove, speaking for myself.
> 

Such a driver does exist, and as soon as I get off my butt and finish the
changes Peter asked me to make to it, he will include it in an official
update.  Hmm.. maybe I'll do that is weekend.

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: lastec@daimi.aau.dk (Lars Toeffner-Clausen)
Subject: ppm8run why doesn't it work
Keywords: ppm8run, makeimagedevice
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark
Distribution: gnu
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:21:20 GMT

Hi there.

I'm new to this group, so sorry if this is a FAQ (where can I get that).

I've tried using ppm8run in the pstoppm package for GhostScript 2.40
but I get the error:

	Error: /rangecheck in --makeimagedevice--
	Operand stack:
	    [1.04167 0 0 -1.04167 0 825]  638  825  (\000\000\000\377...
and a whole lot more.

What is wrong here? Maybe the Palette8 is erroneous, where can I get a
right one?

Thanks in advance.

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Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: msean@cco.caltech.edu (Martin Sean Bennett)
Subject: Odd bug in ghostscript
Keywords: 2.4.1 OUTPUTFILES
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Distribution: gnu
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:59:38 GMT

on a Silicon graphics (sg3) setting OUTPUTFILE to 'fred' causes:

sg1% ./gs -sDEVICE=paintjet -sOUTPUTFILE=fred chess.ps
Initializing... Unrecoverable error: unknownerror in setdevice
Operand stack:
    --nostringval--
sg1%

Any answers ?

Sean




Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: sysgaertner@cygnus.frm.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de (M. Gaertner, FRM, TH Darmstadt, Germany)
Subject: Q: Why does my my-Vax won't boot ?
Reply-To: sysgaertner@cygnus.frm.maschinenbau.th-darmstadt.de
Organization: Fachbereichsrechner Maschinenbau, TH Darmstadt, Germany
Distribution: gnu
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 10:01:39 GMT

Hello netters,
a hardware question here, but I don't know any better place.
I own an old microvax II with 6 MB RAM. Now I found a cheap 8MB board 
and quickly removed the grant continuity card and the 1 MB board from 
the first slot after the cpu (BA23-cabinet) and put the 8 MB (Caminton 
is the producer) in.
Well, the vax comes gracefully to the '>>>'-prompt, but won't find the 
secondary boot, aka. test 2 and test 1 fails.
Whenever the cpu tries the test 2 all leds at the DELQUA, go out and 
wont go on again until the power is cycled.
Since the memory test (6) went good and the board did run in another 
myvax, I have no idea what problem I have now.
Any help or suggestion?
Thanx,

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                      M. Gaertner
                TH Darmstadt, W. Germany
	     Rechnergruppe FB 16-Maschinenbau
      SYSGAERTNER@CYGNUS.FRM.MASCHINENBAU.TH-DARMSTADT.DE
      Phone: Germany, (0)6151/16 5145

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: brostj@rpi.edu (Jeffrey Arthur Brost)
Subject: Highresoluion bug with ppmraw
Keywords: ppm
Organization: Gnus Not Usenet
Distribution: gnu
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 12:50:33 GMT

I am having trouble generating bitmaps using the ppmraw device.
It works fine at lower resolutions, I've tested up to 180x180
successfully, but fails at higher resolutions, for example 
200x200 and higher. 
It only messes up text at the higher resolutions, so I don't think
it could just be running out of memory.
The problem with the text is that it ocaisionally will start
drawing a letter then start it again shifted over and crop off the
right side of the letter. The error is consistent from run to run
on the same file even on different architectures(HP9000/375 , Sparc).
It fails differently at different resolutions. I have
been unable to find any pattern to predict which text will be
messed up. The same character in the same font may be correct
at one place in the image and messed up elsewhere.
Is this a known bug and if so is there a known fix?
Any help would be appreciated.
J. Arthur Brost
abrost@rdrc.rpi.edu
   

Newsgroups: gnu.ghostscript.bug
From: falkner@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian )
Subject: anyone used a bj10e successfully?
Keywords: bj10e ghostscript
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
Distribution: gnu
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 17:52:17 GMT

I've tried repeated times with the 386 and xt versions of ghostscript
to print on a bj10e or a hp laserjet II and it would never print
the whole page.  All I ever got was maybe the first eighth of the page
and it would stop printing saying it was done.  I was only using the
tiger.ps and golfer.ps files that came with ghostscript, and they
were displayed on the screen just fine.  Does anyone have any suggestions
to how I can get the whole file to print?

Brian Faulkner
 

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