🚀 go-pugleaf

David Fuchs writes about Framemaker & PostScript:

   What we don't do (and to the best of my knowledge, what Interleaf,
   Ventura, PageMaker, Quark, troff, and certainly TeX/LaTeX also
   don't do) is to somehow make our fully-paginated, printer-oriented
   PostScript output also behave as if it were proper Encapsulated PS.
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   DVI->PostScript interpreter is being used and what its requirements
   are in the way of non-EPS PostScript inclusion.  There were a
   number of such programs floating around last time I looked, each
   with different sorts of conventions, and different sets of bugs,
   which certainly makes the problem even more difficult.

I haven't really followed this debate, because I don't use Framemaker,
and do not understand why people want to put its output into LaTeX,
but I think David Fuchs isn't entirely correct in his statements:
 
 1) There are several dvi to PS converters that generate good robust
    encapsulated PostScript; I have included output from dvitops, for
    instance, back into a LaTex document, and into Illustrator (and
    thence back into LaTeX)
 
 2) Pagemaker appears to me to produce pretty acceptable EPS output; I
    often use it to wrap up Macdraw pictures for inclusion into LaTeX.

Mind you, I think Fuchs' conclusion (`blame the dvi to PS program
not my PS) is probably not a bad one. There are still a lot of
inadequate dvi to PS programs out there.

Sebastian Rahtz
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