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Re: Large postscript files to a laserwriter

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From: David Haynes
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 1989 16:31
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In article <11384@cgl.ucsf.EDU> rodgers@maxwell.mmwb.ucsf.edu (Richard Rodgers) writes:
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>The original posting complained about the loss of portions of TeX output
>when the output from a DVI to PostScript filter is used, and the document is
>large.  We solve this by using Nelson Beebe's superb filter "dvialw," which
>has a -o option which allows the user to specify the page range to process.

My copy of dvi2ps for laserwiters has the flags -t and -f for "to" and
"from" page numbers. (it also has a -r for reversing the output).
This is a great way to print subsections only.

I can mail this to folks if they are interested.

-david-
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!yunexus!torsqnt!david
From: david@torsqnt.UUCP (David Haynes)
Newsgroups: comp.text,comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Re: Large postscript files to a laserwriter
Keywords: TeX, tex, PostScript
Message-ID: <75@torsqnt.UUCP>
Date: 19 Feb 89 16:31:44 GMT
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Organization: Sequent Computers (Canada) Ltd.
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