wood@CASCADE.STANFORD.EDU (Ernest Wood) (09/07/86)
[Moderator: I don't follow the news groups that closely so if you'd let me
know how, I'll forward this code to Washington]
[[Editor's note: We already have equivalent code, I believe---if not
the same code. You can get it by anonymous ftp from Washington in
<tex.xfer>dvi2ps.sh. For those of you without Internet access, it's
on the current Unix TeX distribution tape. For information on
purchasing that, contact Pierre MacKay, MacKay@washington.
--Rick ]]
A recent request by Per Westerland@chalmers.UUCP asked about forms of dvi2ps
using GF fonts.
We have been running a modified version of dvi2ps here are Stanford that uses
GF fonts for sometime. It doesn't do anything fancy, simply converts the GF
format into pixel format and uses the orginal tex.pro (tex.ps) file as is.
After looking at the possibility of converting to somekind of run length
encoding in the PostScript file itself I decided the advantages weren't
there (at least for us). It didn't appear that PostScript could get as much
of an advantage out of the encoding and in addition it would slow the
printer down as it converted each character on the fly. I never actually
tried it however.
Ernest Wood
Center for Integrated Systems
wood@cascade.stanford.edu
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