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Re: want dvi to postscript translator that uses built-in fonts

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From: Jan Michael Rynning
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 1988 10:06
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In article <4199@boulder.Colorado.EDU> buster@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster) writes:

>I've installed TeX on a Unix machine and I currently use dvi2ps.  What
>I've been trying to make work is a psdvi program that came the TeX tape.
>psdvi includes .tfm files for the adobe fonts and the LN03R and LPS40
>printers have 29 fonts built-in, but my output looks like one point high
>characters (properly formatted).  I've tried messing with the magstep in
>my TeX source, the "correction factor" in the psdvi source, and the 
>postscript prolog file without getting the desired results.

I've seen the ``one point high, properly formatted characters'' problem on a
TeX system where you had to specify ``\font\xxx=Times-Roman at 10pt'' to get
that size. Just ``\font\xxx=Times-Roman'' would give you 1pt size characters
on that system.

Jan Michael Rynning,			jmr@nada.kth.se
Department of Numerical Analysis	If you can't fully handle domains:
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From: jmr@nada.kth.se (Jan Michael Rynning)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: want dvi to postscript translator that uses built-in fonts
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Date: 1 Nov 88 10:06:33 GMT
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