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Re: dvips bug?

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From: Michael Barbehenn
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 1992 14:23
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My original post:
>   I have a postscript file which prints fine on our postscript
>   printer.  I am trying to include this file into a LaTeX
>   document as a figure.  I run dvips and try to print the new
>   postscript file.
>   The printer aborts printing the new file.

>   (A little debugging has pinpointed the source of the ``error''
>    on an apparent encoding of text that appears in the file as
>    a large block of numbers and letters...possibly hexadecimal
>    run together.  When I comment the block out, the lines of the
>    figure are printed ok -- no text)

>   So I am concluding that there is some negative interaction
>   with dvips and my file.  Is it possible that the postscript
>   file is a different `version' than what dvips assumes?

rolfl@karl.uio.no (Rolf Lindgren) writes:
>What's the make and model of your printer and computer, and which version
>of dvips do you use?

I'm using Interleaf V to generate the postscript and am printing the
file on an Imagen 5320 Turbo printer.
When I start latex it says:  This is TeX, C Version 3.14t3
Similarly dvips says:
This is dvips 5.490 Copyright 1986, 1992 Radical Eye Software

My tex file is:
\documentstyle[12pt,fullpage]{article}
\input{psfig}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\centerline{\psfig{figure=test.ps,height=3.0truein}}
\caption{This is the caption.}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

--
-Michael Barbehenn
 AI Group/Beckman Institute
 U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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