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Article #2778dvips and dvi2ps versus psfig and ps fonts
From: Eliot Moss
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 1990 13:11
Date: Mon, 04 Jun 1990 13:11
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The versions of dvips and dvi2ps that we happen to have both have difficulties, and we want to find out if there are later versions, etc., that overcome them. Here are the details: dvips 4.2 - does not understand all psfig specials (notably pstext); also gives errors for some of the .tfm files (ones that came with dvi2ps 3.1). The specific error message is "invalid design size". dvi2ps 3.1 - does not generate ps files that are as compact as dvips; dvips also seems to be a little better at automatically including necessary .pro files (e.g., when using builtin PostScript fonts). psfig 1.2 is the version we have. I am looking into dvips version 5.02 to see if it resolves any of this, but would appreciate guidance from those up on the latest dvi to ps tools. Thanks! -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!usc!snorkelwacker!bu.edu!xylogics!transfer!lectroid!jjmhome!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!moss From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: dvips and dvi2ps versus psfig and ps fonts Message-ID: <MOSS.90Jun4091105@ibis.cs.umass.edu> Date: 4 Jun 90 13:11:05 GMT Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Distribution: comp Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 24