buster@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster) (10/21/88)
I've installed TeX on a Unix machine and I currently use dvi2ps. What I've been trying to make work is a psdvi program that came the TeX tape. psdvi includes .tfm files for the adobe fonts and the LN03R and LPS40 printers have 29 fonts built-in, but my output looks like one point high characters (properly formatted). I've tried messing with the magstep in my TeX source, the "correction factor" in the psdvi source, and the postscript prolog file without getting the desired results. Though I use the write-white fonts for the LN03 with dvi2ps, the built-in fonts look cleaner to me. There's also the difference in file size between psdvi and dvi2ps that concerns me. I'd appreciate any (reasonable) hints. -Paul Buster buster@tramp.colorado.edu
zwicky@pterodactyl.cis.ohio-state.edu (Elizabeth D. Zwicky) (10/21/88)
In article <4199@boulder.Colorado.EDU> buster@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster) writes: >I've installed TeX on a Unix machine and I currently use dvi2ps. What >I've been trying to make work is a psdvi program that came the TeX tape. >psdvi includes .tfm files for the adobe fonts and the LN03R and LPS40 >printers have 29 fonts built-in, but my output looks like one point high >characters (properly formatted). I've tried messing with the magstep in >my TeX source, the "correction factor" in the psdvi source, and the >postscript prolog file without getting the desired results. I think you have missed the obvious. Your files are coming out in the printer's default font (one-point Courier) because you are asking for fonts it doesn't have built-in -- the CMR fonts. What you need to do is use the Adobe fonts *in your document*. We handle this by building a new fonts.tex and lfonts.tex and making a pstex and a pslatex that have Adobe fonts (Times Roman, I'n afraid) instead of CMR. It's a simple application of search-and-replace. You could also just ask for the fonts in your document or in a header file if you didn't wish to build a whole new TeX. > There's also the difference in file size between >psdvi and dvi2ps that concerns me. The difference in file size is caused by a complete difference in method of construction. dvi2ps has to dump the font and the data; psdvi dumps only the data. Some versions of dvi2ps dump the entire page as a bitmap, even. NOTE: There are several programs known as dvi2ps, and there may now be several psdvis as well. The differences can be extremely significant. I am assuming that you are using the psdvi written here by Clayton Elwell, possibly with modifications; it certainly is an error that people get a lot here. (The opposite error, in which people use pslatex and then dvi2ps, gives equally unreadable output; dvi2ps substitutes the font closest in alphabetical order which is circle font. Fascinating, but illegible.) Elizabeth Zwicky zwicky@cis.ohio-state.edu {pyramid, killer}!osu-cis!tut!zwicky
jmr@nada.kth.se (Jan Michael Rynning) (11/01/88)
In article <4199@boulder.Colorado.EDU> buster@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster) writes: >I've installed TeX on a Unix machine and I currently use dvi2ps. What >I've been trying to make work is a psdvi program that came the TeX tape. >psdvi includes .tfm files for the adobe fonts and the LN03R and LPS40 >printers have 29 fonts built-in, but my output looks like one point high >characters (properly formatted). I've tried messing with the magstep in >my TeX source, the "correction factor" in the psdvi source, and the >postscript prolog file without getting the desired results. I've seen the ``one point high, properly formatted characters'' problem on a TeX system where you had to specify ``\font\xxx=Times-Roman at 10pt'' to get that size. Just ``\font\xxx=Times-Roman'' would give you 1pt size characters on that system. Jan Michael Rynning, jmr@nada.kth.se Department of Numerical Analysis If you can't fully handle domains: and Computing Science, ARPA: jmr%nada.kth.se@uunet.uu.net Royal Institute of Technology, UUCP: {uunet,mcvax,...}!nada.kth.se!jmr S-100 44 Stockholm, BITNET: jmr@sekth Sweden. Phone: +46-8-7906288
brian@topaz.jpl.nasa.gov (Brian of ASTD-CP) (11/08/88)
I saw a PostScript film recorder at SigGraph in Atlanta in August 88. It is produced by Mirus Corp, costs about $5K, hooks to a Mac, and has 8Kdots/inch, or maybe that was 4Kdots/inch (what's the grain size of 35mm film anyway?). Sorry, I don't have address or phone #'s for Mirus -- I just remember the name of the company. BCBeckman brian@topaz.jpl.nasa.gov