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Re: Including PostScript figures; problems with xdvi on Sun?

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From: Phil Fischer
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:01
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In article <1992Aug13.150857.29856@ctr.columbia.edu> anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo) writes:
>About including PS files in a Latex document...
>
>I've been trying this for a while now, with no success.  I have gotten
>the psfig.sty file, and have a PS file that has been created with XtoPS.
>By running Latex on the file (pap0.tex) I get no errors, but while running
>xdvi (I'm running this on a Sun IPX w/ OpenWindows 2.0), I get the main
>text of what is in my file, without the pictures.  Any ideas why this might
>not be working?  It does seem that enough space is created for the figure,
>but all I get is a big blank space.
>
>Here's the error message from xdvi:
>
>[ anselmo@cumesb ~/text/tex ]: xdvi pap0
>xdvi:  special "dvitps: Include0 "psfig.pro"" not implemented
>xdvi:  special "dvitps: Literal "38153420 26510049 1052508 12761661 39205928 39271710 startTexFig  "" not implemented
>xdvi:  special "dvitps: Include1 "/home/cumesb/anselmo/text/tex/a.ps"" not implemented
>xdvi:  special "dvitps: Literal "endTexFig  " " not implemented
>[ anselmo@cumesb ~/text/tex ]: 
>
>Thanks.
>
>-A.
>
>
>-- 
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Anselmo / Department of Mechanical Engineering / Columbia University   
>   236A SW Mudd Building 212-854-2965 / anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu 
>

xdvi only displays the .dvi file. If you are including a postscript figure
this is not included until you use dvips (or on of its variants) to make a 
postscript file. At that point the file is all postscript and you can 
display it with a postscript previewer (i.e. ghostscript, pageview).

Phil
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