Thank you.

So far, I am not seeing reverse video problem.

For the time being, though, I am noticing that some jobs come out in 
duplicates or quadruplicates.

This behavior appears to be intermittent. I tried printing tex 
generated pdf files, arxiv generated pdf/ps files, scanned pdf files, 
with and without pdf2ps conversion and running through pstops filters.

The only trend I noticed so far is that usually, when I send many jobs 
at once, the first in the batch comes out in quadruplets.

It is not crippling, but it is wasting toner.

-aki

On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:20 AM, Matt Radtke via UW-HEP Help System wrote:

>
> firmware update last week.
>
> -Matt
>
> ______________________________________
> UW-HEP Help System <help@hep.wisc.edu>
> <https://help.hep.wisc.edu/issue5047>
> ______________________________________

firmware update last week.

-Matt

Just wanted to report furhter on a symptom that printing PDF file from 
the archive using acrobat reader to lp4 on scientific linux also has 
missing font issue, which can be seen in eqs (2), (3), and (4) of 
Scan003.PDF which I attach here.

-aki

Matt: please upgrade the firmware in lp4 today and document
the procedure in a tech note.  Thanks.

steve
--

 > ---- Original Message ----
 > From: Akikazu Hashimoto via UW-HEP Help System <help@hep.wisc.edu>
 > 
 > 
 > Dear Sridhara
 > 
 > Thanks for the comment. I realize PDF is a path (and I do use pdflatex=20
 > all the time) but is not a full solution. One problem is that sometimes,=20
 > it fails to render things like the horizontal lines in fractions. (See=20
 > e=2Eg. eq. 1.1)
 > 
 > Also, since most pdf files are first converted to ps before going to the=20
 > printer, unstable ps is not very desirable.
 > 
 > This might be a linux issue.
 > 
 > This particular output was generated by opening a pdf file
 > 
 > Lattice gauge fields and discrete noncommutative Yang-Mills theory.
 > Jan Ambjorn (Bohr Inst.) , Y.M. Makeenko (Bohr Inst. & Moscow, ITEP) ,=20
 > J=2E Nishimura, R.J. Szabo (Bohr Inst.) . NBI-HE-00-21, ITEP-TH-11-00, Apr=20
 > 2000. 48pp.
 > Published in JHEP 0005:023,2000.
 > e-Print: hep-th/0004147
 > 
 > http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0004147
 > 
 > on xpdf and using the print command
 > 
 > tumble | lpr -Plp4
 > 
 > where tumble is a script in my command path
 > 
 > #!/bin/csh
 > 
 > pstops  '2:0L@.7(21cm,0)+1L@.7(21cm,13cm)' $1
 > 
 > -aki
 > 
 > 
 > Sridhara Dasu wrote:
 > > Dear Aki,
 > >
 > > This looks like an embedded font problem.  I use PDF files from
 > > the archive, and they print fine on printers at HEP.  Have you
 > > tried that?  By the way, pdflatex often produces better output
 > > (in PDF) than latex followed by dvips.
 > >
 > > Having said that, I just downloaded a .ps file from the archive
 > > and my Mac rendered it fine in Preview.  I can't see why lp4
 > > should have a problem with it.
 > >
 > > Let's hope one of the others figure it out.  If not, Wesley is
 > > a good source of advice.
 > >
 > > Regards,
 > > Sridhara
 > >
 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
 > > Prof. Sridhara Rao Dasu                         Department of Physics
 > > dasu@hep.wisc.edu                             University of Wisconsin
 > > http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~dasu                    4289 Chamberlin Hall
 > > 608-262-3678 ( Office )                        1150 University Avenue
 > > 408-829-6625 (Wireless)                        Madison, WI 53706, USA
 > >
 > >
 > 
 > ----------
 > status: unread -> chatting
 >

Dear Sridhara

Thanks for the comment. I realize PDF is a path (and I do use pdflatex 
all the time) but is not a full solution. One problem is that sometimes, 
it fails to render things like the horizontal lines in fractions. (See 
e.g. eq. 1.1)

Also, since most pdf files are first converted to ps before going to the 
printer, unstable ps is not very desirable.

This might be a linux issue.

This particular output was generated by opening a pdf file

Lattice gauge fields and discrete noncommutative Yang-Mills theory.
Jan Ambjorn (Bohr Inst.) , Y.M. Makeenko (Bohr Inst. & Moscow, ITEP) , 
J. Nishimura, R.J. Szabo (Bohr Inst.) . NBI-HE-00-21, ITEP-TH-11-00, Apr 
2000. 48pp.
Published in JHEP 0005:023,2000.
e-Print: hep-th/0004147

http://arxiv.org/pdf/hep-th/0004147

on xpdf and using the print command

tumble | lpr -Plp4

where tumble is a script in my command path

#!/bin/csh

pstops  '2:0L@.7(21cm,0)+1L@.7(21cm,13cm)' $1

-aki


Sridhara Dasu wrote:
> Dear Aki,
>
> This looks like an embedded font problem.  I use PDF files from
> the archive, and they print fine on printers at HEP.  Have you
> tried that?  By the way, pdflatex often produces better output
> (in PDF) than latex followed by dvips.
>
> Having said that, I just downloaded a .ps file from the archive
> and my Mac rendered it fine in Preview.  I can't see why lp4
> should have a problem with it.
>
> Let's hope one of the others figure it out.  If not, Wesley is
> a good source of advice.
>
> Regards,
> Sridhara
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Prof. Sridhara Rao Dasu                         Department of Physics
> dasu@hep.wisc.edu                             University of Wisconsin
> http://www.hep.wisc.edu/~dasu                    4289 Chamberlin Hall
> 608-262-3678 ( Office )                        1150 University Avenue
> 408-829-6625 (Wireless)                        Madison, WI 53706, USA
>
>

The lp4 continues to have problem printing letters in reverse video, 
demonstrated in the example of the attached pdf file.

The specific files causing this appears to be postscript files generated 
from tex. This is a problem, since majority of papers published in the 
physics archive

http://arxiv.org/list/hep-th/new

are in this format.

This has been a problem for some time, and I would like find some 
solution (I can handle pre-processing ps files if that is what is 
called, though there must be a better solution.)

Also, ps files generated from tex is the format of choice in writing papers.

-aki