Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!tness7!killer!netsys!lll-winken!lll-crg.llnl.gov!bowles From: bowles@lll-crg.llnl.gov (Jeff Bowles) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: Laser Jet-II DWB 1.0 Message-ID: <8040@lll-winken.llnl.gov> Date: 31 May 88 17:10:23 GMT References: <75@carpet.WLK.COM> <315@elan.UUCP> Sender: usenet@lll-winken.llnl.gov Reply-To: bowles@lll-crg.llnl.gov.UUCP (Jeff Bowles) Distribution: na Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lines: 20 Ken Greer from Elan posted some information on their product, and then gave an address "to not make this into an ad." Well, folks, consider this an unsolicited ad. I bought their product, or should I say, I convinced the people who sign my paycheck to buy it, and I've been running it in a degraded mode: I don't use the HP "Soft Font" package yet, and in fact copy the output from "eroff" to an MS-DOS network to be dumped onto the printers there. It's a tacky process, but all I have (for now.) I am VERY pleased with the value added by Elan. They provided bitmaps for most point sizes for the standard typefaces (R, I, B, and S), support pic and tbl on the Laserjet II better than the Imagen 8/300 that DWB supposedly works with, fixed a lot of little problems with the macros, and in general, it works. Perhaps if you have a Unix box at home and want a troff for it, this is too pricey. If you can afford it, it's well worth it. Still, I sorta wish they'd provide me with a TeX, but... Jeff Bowles