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Re: dvi2ps

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From: Dan Ehrlich
Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1988 17:52
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In article <29488@bbn.COM> jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) writes:
>I just acquired a new version of dvi2ps that allegedly understands
>"\specials", and let me stuff figures into TeX documents via, for
>example psfig. I edited the paths in the Makefile and compiled it.
>
>When I run the program it tries to open nonexistent font files that have
>rather odd-sounding names, for example, amsy10.1000. Frankly, I'm
>stymied. Can anyone tell me what going on?
>

The am* font family are the American Mathematical Society fonts.  They are
available from AMS in Rhode Island.  If you don't want to spend any money
you should be able to change all of the references to the am fonts to the
freely distributed cm (Computer Modern) fonts that come with TeX.

>RSVP
>John Zavgren, jzavgren@bbn.com

Dan Ehrlich <ehrlich@blitz.cs.psu.edu> | Disclaimer: The opinions expressed are
The Pennsylvania State University      | my own, and should not be attributed
Department of Computer Science         | to anyone else, living or dead.
University Park, PA   16802            |
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