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We have a standard TeX 3.141 installed on an IBM PC RT running AIX 2.2.1.
It appears to produce dvi files just fine, but we are having trouble getting
dvips and dvilj2p to work properly.

dvips:  This is Tomas Rokicki's dvips 5.497.  I specify the -D300 option to
set 300 dpi, as we are printing out on an Apple LaserWriter NT.  (As far as
I know this is PostScript 42.2.)  I download the .ps file (which is created
apparently without a hitch) over TCP/IP to a Macintosh and use Adobe's SendPS
utility to dump it to the printer over LocalTalk.  The output appears fine,
except that the right half and left half of every character--EVERY character--
are reversed.  (Not mirror image; the character is chopped in half vertically
and juxtaposed.)  Incidentally, MusicTeX dvi's, when run through dvips,
print fine except that vertical strips of width approximately 1/12 inch are
transposed the same way.  The other DVI-to-PS filter discussed in the FAQ,
dvitops, works fine, but I would really like to know why dvips doesn't.  I
was suspicious that it may have been an endian problem, but I could not find
an endian option to set when compiling.  I'm stumped.  (dvips and dvitops
alike have to include font bitmaps in the PostScript as we have nothing
resembling Computer Modern for the LaserWriters.)

dvilj2p:  Gustaf Neumann's dvilj2p 0.50, from simtel20.  Again, the output file
is generated without a hitch--a .lj in this case.  But two different things
happen when printing, depending on the method.  If I download the file to my
PC workstation and print over the Novell network, the file comes out on the
LaserJet, but the fonts don't.  The output contains (at least partially) the
right characters in the right positions, but it's all in Courier 10cpi!  (It
tries REAL hard to get the positioning right, though.)  But if I use lpr to
send it to the LaserJet (a III) instead, the burst page comes out and then the
printer complains "MEM OVERFLOW."  There is a megabyte of RAM in this printer,
and it complains when printing a 30k .lj file.  The output contains only those
characters for which fonts are available to the printer, which basically means
lots of vowels scattered across the paper.  I don't understand where it is
going wrong.  I compiled dvilj2p with the LARGE_FONT_MEMORY or something like
that removed, and it still occurs.

Can anyone help us out?

Chris Jeris	raiden@imsasun.imsa.edu	The Illinois Math & Science Academy
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