dvips (version 34 from cornell) barfs on certain \special keywords

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From: dinh
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 1989 21:01

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This version of dvips does not seem to handle the \special keywords
"hscale" and "vscale" which are used to load in a postscript file.

For example,
\special{assembly.ps hoffset=125 voffset=0 hscale=0.5 vscale=0.5}
will cause dvips to produce the following messages:

invalid  keyword or value in \special: "hscale" ignored.
invalid  keyword or value in \special: "vscale" ignored.

I am not very familiar with the \special command so I wonder if any
text gurus out there knows of an easy fix to this problem.

				Dinh
				dinh@cs.ucla.edu (ARPAnet)
				dinh@twinsun.com (uucp)

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