nspl@olivee.olivetti.com (Riccardo Mazza) (11/22/89)
For whom it may interest: Yet another dvi2lj filter. I have been holding out on these sources for a long time because I didn't have time to go through all the steps to "officially" submit to some ".sources" group these sources. Since it has been more than half a year that we are using this filter, and I probably will never find the time, Here are the sources, which should work well for UNIX targets for a laserjet printer. They can be found in compressed and uncompressed forms using (anonymous ftp): 129.189.192.20 (orc.olivetti.com) pub/tmp/laserjet.tar pub/tmp/laserjet.tar.Z A few notes: * First and most important. I take little credit. As you will see in the README's, it is based on the umd libraries found under the official TeX release of DVIware. It began as a hack of the "imagen" filter, and the "imagen" skeleton is still visible. So again, I give all credit to umd. Included in the "tar" is their libraries, one or two things have been modified if I remember correctly (but very slightly). * Second. Do what you like with these sources. * Third. Obviously no guarantee. * Fourth. Let me know what you think. * Fifth. Some Features: Some extra features which this has includes: * landscape mode * "softfont" unloading/loading (e.g. allows you to have more than 16? (or is it 32) fonts per document which the HP seems to limit. * -J option which indicates to use "x escapement" instead of tfmwidth. Useful for strange "pk"s (Yes, they exist). * \special{xxx}. I implemented it in a very Unix-like manner. The string "xxx" will be passed of the "system" and the output goes into the document. With the extra feature that $x and $y in the string expands to the current x/y coordinates. * Sixth. Extra goodies. * pk2tfm. Ever find a ".pk" without a ".tfm". Lets not ask where you got it, but this program creates a "usable" ".tfm". * faces. Reads the "usenet" sun bitmap faces files and creates hp laser-ready output. Cute inside a \special. * hp-pcl. Another filter, fairly delicate, but easy to modify, which reads hp-pcl descriptions changing cursor motions to absolute motions allowing one for example, to include drawings from PC tools in a TeX document via \special, using the $x/$y expansions telling where to relocate the design. * Seventh. Some examples. Good luck. Jon Zaid, Ivrea, Italy (39 125 52 8565) Please respond to uucp addresses below instead of arpa address in news since I never read my mail here. uunet!amdahl!oliveb!iconet!tom!cgrp uunet!amdahl!oliveb!iconet!xsft8!cgrp