Re: Degas > PS and DVI > PS

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From: Scott Yelich
Date: Sun, 03 Dec 1989 17:43

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> While we are on this subject I would like to respond to Dylan Yolles
> on the matter of TeX DVI  to Postscript conversion.  With my imperfect
> knowledge of the subject it appeasr that such a conversion would not
> make sense.  The font files used to generate the DVI document in TeX
> do not correspond in any sense to those used in Postscript.  It is
> therefore unreasonable to expect that the layout of the document would be
> preserved in such a conversion.

Hmmm... Of course, I am talking about a sun system... but we use dvi2ps
constantly....

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