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)
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