Enrico Forestieri wrote: > On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 10:45:40PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>>>> "Herbert" == Herbert Voss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Herbert> these are _all_ config files and not printer files. >> >> Herbert> dvips -P<config> >> >> Herbert> eg dvips -Pcmz <file> >> >> In the old days, it was not about brand new fonts, but rather metafont >> modes. Typical case, besides the known problem of DPI setting: >> write-white and write-black printers can produce fonts that are too >> thin/thick. This is well documented in the modes.mf file. > > I also question the assertion that the -P option is not for printer > settings. This is an excerpt from the dvips man page: > > -P printername > Sets up the output for the appropriate printer. This > is implemented by reading in config.printername , which > can then set the output pipe (as in, !lpr -Pprintername > as well as the font paths and any other config.ps > defaults for that printer only. Note that config.ps is > read before config.printername In addition, another > file called ~/.dvipsrc is searched for immediately > after config.ps; this file is intended for user > defaults. If no -P command is given, the environment > variable PRINTER is checked. If that variable exists, > and a corresponding configuration file exists, that > configuration file is read in.
this is nowadays only of some historical interest ... As seen is Richard's config list from Fedora, the file is used as a config file. Herbert
