On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Peter Jones wrote:
> I am rather new to Lyx and Linux as a whole, and have very little
> experience with Ghostscript at all.
> When printing a file in the .dvi viewer to an Epson 9- pin dot-matrix
> printer the letters often are horizontally cropped on paper. Any font whose
> base drops beyond a certain point on the line gets trimmed, for exaple the
> stylized "LyX" appears as having a "v" instead of a "y".
* A stuck pin.
There are a few tips on fixing that on www.repairfaq.org, involving
an ultrasonic cleaner, chemicals from Union Carbide, a dead cat, and a
full moon on a Thursday's night. (maybe I'm mixing it up with the
mother-in-law section)
* Font resolution mismatch
Make sure dvips is set up for that resolution. The output won't be pretty
if dvips uses fonts for 600dpi and gs tries to recalculate them for 240x72
* Driver mismatch
is it really an Epson(tm), not just an epson-almost-compatible and if it
is, are you using the driver for the right model? (there are several
variants on the epson driver in gs, not all are compiled in in the gs
binary at once)
* After all, it's just a 9-pin matrix printer, don't expect too much from
it. ...if I recall it right though, there is a utility floating around
for generating epson output from dvi files, using more suitable fonts.
>
> Ghostscript 3.33
> Epson 9- pin dot matrix RX-80
> Lyx 1.0
>
> !/bin/sh
> -dNOPAUSE -dSAFE
> -sDEVICE=epson -r240x72
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :sf:
>
Joacim
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