aki@akix.uucp (Aki Atoji) (03/22/91)
I was printing some PS files generated by dvi2ps and realized that it prints extremely slow. A little bit of looking into reveals that a lot of raster data (fonts?) is embedded into the PS file, and this is really slowing down the printing. I would assume that if you have dvi2ps, you have dvi utilities to print the dvi files directly? I would like to know the reasons why there is a need to print PS from a dvi file, and if so, is the printing speed really acceptable on the PS printer being printed on. The need to know this has a little bit of complicated background: being mainly a VAX/VMS shop, people at my work dismiss the slowness of printing dvi2ps output with the reasoning that the dvi file should be printed by a dvi printing utility, since they are used to printing vdi files directly from VAX/VMS (not that it prints much faster, our VAX cluster is *very* slow). I disagree with this, since I have seen references to dvi2ps here many times, and that there must be a need for it. I would appreciate it if dvi2ps users could give me the following: Why use dvi2ps? On what make/model printer is it? Is the print speed acceptable? -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aki Atoji {ncr-sd,ucsd}!serene!akix!aki {nosc,ucsd,hplabs!hp-sdd}!crash!telesys!akix!aki (only if above fail) aki@akix.uucp