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In article <SPQR.90Feb22125232@manutius.ecs.soton.ac.uk> spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) writes:
-dvijep and dvijet (I assume these are from Utah) do not support on the
-fly font generation. So far as I know, only Rokicki's dvips does that.
-making a new font requires firing up Metafont, and the process takes
-between 1 and 10 minutes on most machines. many people don't have MF
-running, which is why dvi drivers dont use this technique much
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-Sebastian Rahtz                        S.Rahtz@uk.ac.soton.ecs (JANET)
-Computer Science                       S.Rahtz@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Bitnet)
-Southampton S09 5NH, UK                S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp    (uucp)

An unsolicited plug:

    I've just installed Rokicki dvips program, and I really like its
support for on-the-fly font generation (plus its support of the new virtual
fonts, sensible & easily extensible \specials, bitmap compression, ...). 
Its true that MetaFont isn't terrifically fast, but on my machine generating
a previously unused font normally takes less than a minute.  And of course,
that only happens once.  

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