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This is a repost of an earlier query I made, with (I think) no response, hoping
for some help this time ?  (earlier post may not have made it, we had/have some
probs with the NEWS feed, hopefully solved now)

Are we the only site in the world that does NOT use DVIPS for La/TeX --> PS
conversion?  We use DVIOUT, basically because why change what works? I dont 
know if it matters, but we are running VMS 5.4-3 on VAX 3100 workstations and 
fileservers.  The DVIOUT and other La/TeX software is from latest DECUS tape 
TEX release.

We have a problem with DVIOUT.  In general it works fine, however, when we try
to include PS or EPS files into the documents, it does not seem to properly
recognise the \special{...} command.  No errors, and seems to stuff the
approprite PS file into the TEX PS file, but when printed just leaves blank
space!

Example of LaTeX source follows:

\begin{figure}
\vspace{12cm}
\special{paste file.ps postscript 15cm 20cm}
\caption{Sample figure intended to show a picture within \LaTeX }
\end{figure}

If anyone can help please e-mail me direct at address below, or reply via this
newsgroup if you prefer.  (I would understand if you didn't want to admit you
actually use DVIOUT in public).

Thanks (I hope).
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Robert Burling-Claridge, WRONZ, Lincoln, NZ.

e-mail : CLARIDGE@WRONZ.ORG.NZ
snail  : Wool Research Organisation of NZ, 
	 Private Bag, Christchurch, New Zealand

"Why would anyone need a computer of their own ? " -- Ken Olsen, 1974.

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