[comp.os.vms] DVI to Postscript filter

STEINBERGER@KL.SRI.COM (Richard Steinberger) (04/27/88)

I am in the process of installing the TeX utility on a VAX 3600 system that
uses an LN03R (Postscript) printer (and Scriptwriter SW from DEC).
I am neither a TeX guru nor a Postscript guru.  My understanding of TeX
is that it produces DVI files which, in my case, would need be translated
into Postscript before they can be printed.  Presumably such a utility
exists.  Can anyone supply more information as to how/where it may
be procured (free would be nice!)?

In the process of RTFMs,

               Ric Steinberger
               steinberger@kl.sri.com


Thanks to any and all who reply.

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carter@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Mike Carter) (04/27/88)

Nelson Beebe at the University of Utah distributes a package called:
A TeX DVI Driver Family

It is available by anonymous ftp, but I never did get that to work and
ended up sending him a tape.  The package includes lots of DVI tranlators,
postcript is one of them.  I tested it fairly extensively and have had
no problems, but we don't have it up for production yet.

I would suggest contacting Nelson directly:

     Nelson H.F. Beebe
     Center for Scientific Computation
     220 South Physics Building
     University of Utah
     SLC, UT  84112
     (801) 581-5254
     Beebe@Science.Utah.Edu
    


 Mike Carter, Academic Computing Services, University of Colorado, Boulder
                        carter@tramp.Colorado.EDU
                                       

iglesias@ORION.CF.UCI.EDU (Mike Iglesias) (04/27/88)

I got Nelson Beebe's DVIALW (DVI to apple laserwriter) program via
anonymous ftp to science.utah.edu.  I don't remember the exact
path to the files, but if you poke around you should be able to
find it.  DVIALW works with the Kellerman and Smith TeX distribution
(that's what we have).  I don't know about others - it may
depend on the format of the font files.


Mike Iglesias
University of California, Irvine

pierre@acf8.UUCP (pierre landau) (04/28/88)

The standard TeX distribution contains an executable called DVI2PS,
which does what you want.  If your distribution doesn't have it, get
a distribution from DECUS (I think one of the VAX-SP series) as theirs
definitely includes what you want.