Organization: Fundacao Universidade Estadual de Maringa - Brasil
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Date:         Thu, 30 Jul 1992 10:43:26 BSC
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From:         Humberto Jose' Bortolossi <HJBORTOL@BRFUEM.BITNET>
Subject:      Troubles: TeX/CMD <--> 3820/3827 laser printers
Comments: To: page-l@ucf1vm.BITNET, tex-ibm@dhdurz1.BITNET

Greetings.

    Our university was install TeX at our 3090/VM.ESA IBM machine. However,
we are getting troubles and I hope you can help us, please.

    Our laser printers are: 3820 and 3827. We got the first tape ot TeX so
we needed to generate all fonts. We did this following the steps:

           (1) MAKEFONT <Font Name.MF> ibm 240 pxl

           (2) PXLCVT <Font Name> (3820

for all * MF. As result we got all * FONT3820 and * 1200PXL files.

    Our next step was to do a test with printer: we wrote some LaTeX text,
and, thus, we converted the DVI file for a LIST3820 one using DVI3820 pro-
gram:

                          DVI3820 TEST

where TEST is the name of our TeX source file.

    We used PSF/VM to print this file with the following command:

           PSF TEST LIST3820 A (FONT (* FONT3820 K) SE)

(the option (FONT (* FONT3820 K) SE) is to send FONT3820 files together, am
I right?). But our result is nothing :( ... We got no response. Bellow is a
log of transaction with IBM 3827 laser printer:

<----- begin ----------------------------------------------------------------->
APRSCL300I START OF SFCM MESSAGES FOR TESTE LIST3820 (6488) TIME IS 09:18:21 BSC
APRGRE380I FORMDEF F1A10112 FDEF38PP IS ACTIVE
APRGRE380I PAGEDEF P113280 PDEF38PP IS ACTIVE
APRPRO383I PROCESSING PRINT FILE TESTE LIST3820
APRBPG711I COPY GROUP F2A10112 IS ACTIVE
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CHARACTER SET C0R12 FONT3820
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CODE PAGE ASCII FONT3820
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CHARACTER SET C0TT12 FONT3820
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CODE PAGE ASCII FONT3820
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CHARACTER SET C0SL12 FONT3820
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CODE PAGE ASCII FONT3820
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CHARACTER SET C0MI12 FONT3820
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CODE PAGE ASCII FONT3820
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CHARACTER SET C0EX10 FONT3820
APRGRE383I PROCESSING CODE PAGE ASCII FONT3820
APRSCL366I END OF SFCM MESSAGES-TIME IS 09:18:50 BSC THURSDAY 07/30/92
APRPPR433I START OF 3827 PDM MESSAGES FOR PR3827. TIME IS 09:18:51 BSC THURSDAY
APRLFN349S CHARACTER SET C0R12 FONT3820 WAS NOT FOUND
APRLFN280I THE ABOVE ERROR OCCURRED ON LOGICAL PAGE 1
APRPTR511S PRINTING OF SPOOL FILE TEX 6488 HAS BEEN TERMINATED
APRPRT508I FILE TEX 6488 WAS PLACED IN USER HOLD
APRPRT436I END OF 3827 PDM MESSAGES FOR PR3827. TIME IS 09:19:12 BSC THURSDAY 07
<----- end   ----------------------------------------------------------------->

    This logs reports the following error: the FONT C0R12 FONT3820 was not
not found. My doubts are:

        (1) Did we generate the fonts using a wrong way? If yes, which is the
right procedure to generate fonts for 3820/3827 printers?

        (2) am I using PSF following a wrong syntax? How do I inform PSF about
where the TeX fonts are?

        (3) To be short, what is wrong? :(

    Any help/suggestions/solutions will be very welcome.

    Thanks a lot in advance.

    Humberto Jose' Bortolossi
    Bitnet: hjbortol at brfuem
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