| Title: | DOCUMENT T1.0 |
| Notice: | **New notesfile (DOCUMENT.NOTE) now available (see note 897)** |
| Moderator: | CLOSET::ADLER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 09 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Oct 31 1991 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 897 |
| Total number of notes: | 4397 |
I'd like some information on memory requirements for LN03 printers;
that is, about this extra ram you need to print .LN03 files. What I'd
like to know more specifically is: can you get around this requirement
by avoiding graphics, avoiding certain doctypes, living a clean
life, liquidating your limited partnerships, buying gold?
Our client wants to distribute documentation by way of .LN03 files
but wants them able to run on vanilla LN03s. Any way this might
happen?
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 628.1 | Miracles? Sorry, next window. | VAXUUM::DEVRIES | M.D. -- your Device Doctor | Fri Jul 10 1987 11:00 | 17 |
It is not possible to print VAX DOCUMENT's .LN03 files without RAM
cartridges. You need *both* RAMs for anything more than trivial
documents.
VAX DOCUMENT uses a variety of proportional fonts; the fonts built
into the LN03 are monospaced and ugly (by comparison).
The vanilla LN03 has only 27K to hold font data, and that won't
go very far. With both RAMs you bump it to 283K -- and even that
is not enough to hold everything you would need for a large, font-rich
document. Therefore we had to play tricks with the LN03 device converter
to handle even this limit.
The fact of the matter is that you can't have all the features of
the hardware without buying all the features of the hardware. Sorry.
--Mark
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