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

steve
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 > ---- 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
 > >
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