Re: looking for dvi-to-postscript converter

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From: Dave Stoutamire
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 1991 19:31

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In article <FISCHER.91Jan6205721@thiele.iesd.auc.dk> fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes:

   >>>>> On 6 Jan 91 14:56:03 GMT, ozalp@dm.unibo.it said:

   ozalp> is there a public domain dvi-to-ps converter that can handle
   ozalp> gf/pk fonts AND \special requests for inclusion of postscript
   ozalp> source in latex documents (eg.  via psfig)?

   dvips by Tomas Rokicki (rokicki@neon.stanford.edu) is the one to use.
   The fact that Knuth himself hacked it to support virtual fonts is
   evidence enough for me. It's available in many places.
   labrea.stanford.edu is one.

   Works nicely with all kinds specials, PostScript fonts, etc, etc.

I have the same problem, and dvips does not seem to solve it.  psfig 1.2
generates the /special "pstext" which dvi2ps can handle but dvips
cannot.

This is a big problem, because for whatever reasons, dvi2ps does not 
always generate PS which our ALWs can print... comments like %%EOF
are part of the problem, but I cannot figure out what else is going
wrong.

dvialw does work better, but it cannot handle the "pstext" /special either.

Can anyone help?  "psfig" is very nice, but this printing business is
brain-death in action.
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   daves@alpha.ces.cwru.edu  |   David Stoutamire, 
                             |   gradual student of Computer Engineering
   (216) 368-5038            |   at Case Western Reserve University

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