rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) (07/11/87)
Apparently ftp'ing from rocky is a little more difficult than I thought. Okay, dvips is available from labrea.stanford.edu in /pub/dvips.shar.Z. Sorry for the mistake. -tom
rokicki@rocky.STANFORD.EDU (Tomas Rokicki) (12/18/87)
To get a freely redistributable TeX dvi to PostScript program, anonymous ftp from labrea.stanford.edu pub/dvips.tar.Z. Oh, bibtex.c.Z is also there. It's written for 300 dpi printers, but change a parameter in the include file and in the tex.lpro file, and it will work for any dpi. It also has some support for graphics. If it's for AmigaTeX, Tony, give me a call . . .
priol@irisa.UUCP ( Equipe Hypercubes) (11/29/88)
Does someone know where i can get programs other than 'dvips' which print eepic and epic graphics on a laserwriter ? Thanks in advance. -- Thierry PRIOL Phone: 99 36 20 00 IRISA Fax: 99 38 38 32 Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu Telex: UNIRISA 950 473F 35042 RENNES CEDEX - FRANCE E-mail: priol@irisa.fr
dinh@burns.twinsun.com (08/10/89)
This version of dvips does not seem to handle the \special keywords
"hscale" and "vscale" which are used to load in a postscript file.
For example,
\special{assembly.ps hoffset=125 voffset=0 hscale=0.5 vscale=0.5}
will cause dvips to produce the following messages:
invalid keyword or value in \special: "hscale" ignored.
invalid keyword or value in \special: "vscale" ignored.
I am not very familiar with the \special command so I wonder if any
text gurus out there knows of an easy fix to this problem.
Dinh
dinh@cs.ucla.edu (ARPAnet)
dinh@twinsun.com (uucp)rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (08/11/89)
In article <23@looney.twinsun.com>, dinh@burns.twinsun.com writes: > This version of dvips does not seem to handle the \special keywords > "hscale" and "vscale" which are used to load in a postscript file. A few notes. First of all, 3.4 is a beta version, and bug reports should go to me, not to public distribution. The one you mention will be fixed; how has not been specified. (Specifically, some dvi2ps programs use hscale=0.34 (a fraction); some use hscale=34 (a fraction times 100 rounded to an integer). I've got to figure out a convenient way to select between the two interpretations.) The program should be released for general consumption by TUG. -tom
rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (09/23/89)
To those who don't read comp.text for comp.TeX.dvi.drivers.for.PostScript, please hit `N' now . . . Now, to hit a few birds with one post. The LPS040 (at least, the ones I've played with) have 1M of virtual memory. The Apple LaserWriter has 180K. The QMS PS810 has 400K. The NeXT machine (bless its soul) has as much as you care; 1M seems to work. It's `dvips', not dvi2ps. Many print spoolers attempt to interpret %% comments---and fail miserably in their job. You might try the -N option to disable these comments and see if things work then. (This can also be specified in config.ps as a line starting with `N'). The VM specified in config.ps (on a line starting with `m') is the amount of VM free in the printer during normal operation. If your system `initializes' the printer with some prolog files, this VM may not be as high as you might like. Thus, you might try reducing this parameter. Setting it to less than 100K, though, will probably not work very well; I recommend at least 140K for most documents. (The Apple LaserWriter has 180K, and that's one of the most memory-constrained printers around.) To monitor free VM during a job, there are some lines in tex.lpro which can be uncommented (don't forget the one in the definition of /eop.) Still don't know how much VM in the machine? Send a file something like the following: %! PostScript, fool /Times-Roman findfont 30 scalefont setfont 144 432 moveto vmstatus 40 string cvs show ( ) show 40 string cvs show ( ) show 40 string cvs show ( ) show showpage The first is total available VM, the second is VM in use, the third is the save level. You should use the first less the second. Yes, 4.0 does have some minor problems; 4.1 should be available soon. -tom
atula@cs.keele.ac.uk (Atula Herath) (12/02/89)
Hi, I've installed dvips, and when I try to print the postscript it produces in Apple Laser Writer, the error message offending command : bop stack : printed on the paper. I have changed the VM to 100000 (in config.ps file) and later tried with (50000 60000 70000 80000 90000, with D 300, of course). Could somebody kindly tell me what's going on here? Thanks in advance. Athula (atul%@uk.ac.keele.cs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk) --
rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (12/03/89)
In article <1196@kl-cs.UUCP>, atula@cs.keele.ac.uk (Atula Herath) writes: > I've installed dvips, and when I try to print the postscript it produces > in Apple Laser Writer, the error message > offending command : bop > stack : Your spooler or printer is removing the %%BeginSetup/%%EndSetup section. Use the -N flag to disable structured comments and things should work again. Might want to get 4.21 from labrea.stanford.edu as well . . . -tom