krause@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (11/19/89)
I have made a DVI-to-DeskJet driver available via anonymous ftp.
This is a beta version, and it is just the binary. The package also
includes MS-DOS binaries for "dviselect" and "dviconcat" from the
MC-TeX package. This allow you to extract subsets of DVI files
and combine several dvi files, respectively.
The driver uses downloadable fonts, so you must have at least one
128K RAM cartridge in your DeskJet (or DeskJet+) printer. It will
work with only 128K (that's all I have) for documents with many fonts.
To get a copy, ftp to a.cs.uiuc.edu (or 128.174.252.1). Login as
anonymous, give your id as the password. Go to the "pub/krause"
directory, switch to binary transfer mode, and get dvidj.tar.Z.
Uncompress and untar and you're on your way.
The file is 122,437 bytes long. The compressed tar file yields the
following from "sum dvidj.tar.Z" on our machine:
55479 120
Contact me via email if you have any troubles. I hope the info
with the driver is enough to get people set up using it. There is
a README file in the tar file that describes more about the
driver, its limitations, and its use.
If there are bugs, again, please send me email. What would be ideal
would be a copy of the DVI file that causes the error. And with
dviselect, you can extract the page causing the problem and send
just that! Ain't technology great?
Enjoy!
-James Krause
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P.S. An addendum to the readme: If I forgot to mention it, you
can send output directly to the printer (rather than a disk
file); just use "-o prn" as the output argument. And, another
warning: I would not try using this driver with PiCTeX output
with other than straight lines; PiCTeX draws curved lines
with lots of dots (periods), and printing those is really slow.
Finally, I have not really tested "gf" font support. (But I
have tried both pk and pxl fonts, with no problems.)