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>>>>> On 12 Aug 92 10:05:20 GMT, hong@cithe304.cithep.caltech.edu (John Hong)
>>>>> said:

John> A while back, I asked:

	>I am able to use Thomas Rokicki's "times.sty" and "dvips" to
	>generate my LaTex documents with PostScript fonts.  However the
	>success is limited to the generation of the postscript file; I
	>am no longer able to use "xdvi" to preview the .dvi files
	>generated with times.sty.  It complains that it can not find
	>the PS fonts.  Does anybody have a solution to this problem ?

John> Thanks to many people who replied.  Some people suggested to use
John> ghostscript, but ghostscript is not quite as user friendly as xdvi,
John> IMHO.  With help from Bruno Hall (bruno@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu), I
John> came to an understanding that one can not use xdvi to preview in
John> Postscript fonts directly, xdvi will substitute the unfound postscript
John> fonts with cmr10.

John> However, that is not the case if one has these fonts in pk format.  The
John> following is a mail from Michael Joswig, stating the availability of the
John> software transforming PS afm fonts into pk format (ps2pk). Since he can
John> not post to the USENET, I am including his mail below.  (Disclaimer: I
John> have not tried this out yet.)

Two quick responses:

1) Using the .pk files works just fine, and allows me to preview PostScript
   fonts using dviscr (the emTeX previewer) on my PC, as well as via xdvi on a
   workstation.

2) Ghostscript is not a previewer, but GhostView *is*, and it is also
   available from prep.ai.mit.edu (in pub/gnu). I find it to be a really nice
   previewer for PostScript. Using a ps previewer does require running through
   dvips (or equivalent) first, but is nice if you are including ps figures.
   Otherwise, xdvi may be faster.
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