willis@auvax.UUCP (Tony Willis) (12/17/87)
I imagine that this query has been asked before so forgive please?
Anyway, is there a public domain filter available out there for
converting a TeX dvi file into a postscript file?
Tony Willis
Athabasca University ...{ubc-vision,ihnp4}!alberta!auvax!willis uucp
Box 10,000 usercdir@ualtamts BITNET
Athabasca, Alberta TOG 2R0
Canada (403) 675-6221 inra@axis.fr (Inst. Natl. Rech. Agronomique) (12/22/87)
We are interested by an eventual public domain DVi to postscript filter Please email to: Yves Bertheau UUCP AXIS!INRA EARN/BITNET BERTHEAU@FRINRA72 Thanks in advance
pierre@imag.UUCP (Pierre LAFORGUE) (12/23/87)
In article <355@axis.fr> inra@axis.fr (Inst. Natl. Rech. Agronomique) writes: >We are interested by an eventual public domain DVi to postscript filter There are 3 or 4 public domain versions of dvi2ps (dvi TO postscript filter), written in the C language, from the same source. They all work fine, but ... none of them, as I know, integrate the add-on features introduced by the others. For example, in the standard distribution of TeX for Unix systems (sent for a moderate price by the University of Washington, by courtesy of Pierre Mac Kay), a good version of dvi2ps is given. It can use the "gf" format of the fonts, less voluminous than the "pxl". In case of inclusion of Macintosh generated postscript inside the DVI (as by \special), it does not save and restore correctly the state. An older version of dvi2ps was able to act graciously in that case, but it necessited to generate the pxl formats. So, in the Imag Institute, we use only Postscript printers, one AGFA P400-PS and 10 Apple LaserWriters, for TeX/LaTeX (with dvi2ps and dvi2agfa, a locally customized version to manage with the 406 p/i resolution instead of 300), DWB/Troff and the Macintosh stuffs. -- Pierre Laforgue pierre@imag.imag.fr {uunet.uu.net|mcvax}!imag!pierre