jzavgren@bbn.com (John Zavgren) (09/02/88)
I have been searching for good ways to include figures in TeX documents. I have decided to try pulling in postscript code by the use of "\special" calls. Recently I came across psfig, which appears to be a good package for this. It allegedly can take figures generated by MacDraw and stuff them in my scholarly TeXnichal reports. But, alas, my copy of dvi2ps doesn't like the "\special" calls that psfig uses. I attempted to solve this problem by obtaining the source for dvips, as recommended by the author. (I don't have an email address for the author.) It has a special module called dospecial.c that handles "\special" calls. But, apparently psfig generates "\special" calls that this dospecial.c was not built to handle; the compiled program bombs when it processes the "dvi" file for the psfig manual. I really don't look forward to fixing this myself. Can someone please help me locate sources for dvips (or any other program that converts dvi files to postscript) that will build a program that can handle the "special" calls that psfig uess? Thanks John Zavgren