ee923ta@venus.ycc.yale.edu (03/28/89)
Greetings, I am having problems printing with Texture. I don't have LaserWriters connected with the mac I have access to, and usually I generate a postscript file by control-f and up-load it to a microvax to print on a laserwriter. However, the postscript file generated from Texture won't print on our laserwriter. The offensive command is "TEXdict". I also tried to up-load the DVI file generated by DVITools DA to the microvax, but dvi file won't work with DVIPS (dvi->ps translator) and DVIDIS (preview DVI files); neither does it print on IMAGEN. The error msgs are something like "no font set up" and so on. Has anyone seen this problem, or I just missed something in the set-ups? By the way, is there any good reference book on TEXTURE? Thanks -- Kang Sun --- ee923ta@venus.ycc.yale.edu
knapp@cs.utexas.edu (Edgar Knapp) (03/29/89)
In article <54991@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> ee923ta@venus.ycc.yale.edu writes: >Greetings, > > I am having problems printing with Texture. I don't have [stuff deleted] > By the way, is there any good reference book on TEXTURE? > > Thanks > >-- Kang Sun First of all the name of the program is TeXtures. Secondly, I found the documentation which comes with a legal copy of TeXtures (TeXbook, LaTeX book, Manual) completely sufficient for using the system. To answer your question about printing: I successfully used two methods to get printed output: 1) download the dvi-file to a UNIX host using binary kermit on both machines. Print with "lpr -d" or "dvispool". "dvi2ps" should work, too, even though I have not tried it. 2) download the postscript file to the other machine and use a current version of "maclaser", "prepfix", or what other gadgets you get a hold of to modify the mac postscript header file. The first method is significantly faster than the second, because a dvi-file is about 10-20% the size of a postscript file for the same document. Edgar Knapp (knapp@cs.utexas.edu)