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Greetings. I'm in dire need of some quick help with what may be
trivial questions, and thank you in advance for whatever you can
offer.

* We have an encapsulated postscript file that prints on our
postscript printers just fine (DEC lnxx series printers attached to
VAX VMS systems) and is also able to be previewed with ghostview and
DEC's CDA viewer, but that is absolutely impossible to include in a 
TeX document for printing. 
	- Our version of psfig seems to be 1.1 on VMS - undoubtedly
	  antiquated - where can I get a newer version?
	- Our TeX is 2.991, LaTeX is 2.09, on a VAX running VMS 5.5-2
	- I also tried it on an Alpha running OSF/1 v2.0, with
	  TeX v3.141, LaTex v2.09, psfig v1.8 - same results as VMS.
	- When using psfig to include the .eps file for printing,
	     - we get a postscript output file with no complaints from TeX
             - the file prints with no complaints from the printing software
	     - *** NOTHING COMES OUT OF THE PRINTER ***
                   - no error pages, no online msgs, nothing.

Here is the TeX file I tried:

\input psfig
\null\vskip 3 true in
\centerline{\psfig{figure=vcbf1.eps}}
\vskip 3 true in
\centerline{Figure 1}
\end

and here is the LaTeX file I tried:

\documentstyle[12pt,doublespace]{article}
\input psfig
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}[htb]
\vspace{-3.0cm}
\centerline{\psfig{figure=vcbf1.eps,height=8in,bbllx=80bp,bblly=300bp,bburx=550bp,bbury=700bp,clip=}}
\vspace{-3.0cm}
\caption{\label{Ffds}Predictions for $f_{D_s}$ obtained using
error limits.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
\end

The bounding box info seems correct, based on ghostview's image of the
.eps file. Nothing prints, however.

    Could someone please advise what to do to get this to work in TeX?
    Psfig works on other *.eps files, just not this particular one.
    I'd rather not upgrade TeX or LaTex if I don't have to, would be
    happy to upgrade psfig if I knew where to find it for VMS and for
    OSF/1. However, given that it fails with 2 versions of psfig, as
    noted above, I don't think that's the problem. 

* Last question - where are some archive sources for TeX FAQs, this
  group, TeX distributions? 


Many thanks, anxiously awaiting help to help an anxious user!!!!

Judith Reed
judith@suhep.phy.syr.edu
Syracuse University