[comp.sys.next] problems with dvips in the 68040 CUBE!!!

nevai@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Paul Nevai) (04/11/91)

Now that I have ugraded my NeXT cube to system software version 2.0 and to
board 68040, I noticed that the "c" flag (copies) in dvips stopped working
such as in

		dvips -c 3 foo.dvi

I can still use collated copies such as "dvips -C 3 foo.dvi".

Can anyone advise me??? I have the following versions of \TeX\ and dvips:

	This is CTeX, NeXT Version 3.1a

	This is dvips, version 5.396 (C) 1986-90 Radical Eye Software

Thanks...Paul

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mcohen@speech-sun.ntt.JP (USR2-Group) (04/15/91)

Another dvips bug: the -t switch (setting mode, for different paper
sizes) blows up, at least for "-t a4", printing oversized characters
in pseudo-random ways.

charlie@wam.umd.edu (Charles William Fletcher) (04/17/91)

In article <170516@nttlab.ntt.JP> mcohen@speech-sun.NTT.JP (USR2-Group) writes:
>Another dvips bug: the -t switch (setting mode, for different paper
>sizes) blows up, at least for "-t a4", printing oversized characters
>in pseudo-random ways.


I have had a similar problem with the "-t legal" mode. (I reported it
here about a month ago--thanks to everyone who gave me a solution,
unfortunately they didn't solve the problem.) I contacted Rokicki,
but he didn't have a way to check into the problem at this time.
I'm not convinced the problem lies entirely with dvips--for example
when I generate a legal size paper with dvips, YAP displays the entire
page (although offset, which I can then correct). But printing the  
page it always gets chopped off. Anyone got any ideas?

Charlie

ken@csis.dit.csiro.au (Ken Yap) (04/18/91)

In article <170516@nttlab.ntt.JP>:
>Another dvips bug: the -t switch (setting mode, for different paper
>sizes) blows up, at least for "-t a4", printing oversized characters
>in pseudo-random ways.

It may not be a dvips bug but a PS interpreter bug. Our Dataproducts
1260 dislikes BoundingBoxes larger than the paper size here (A4). (Yes,
apparently the interpreter reads the structuring comments!) and
produces double height characters. Using -t a4 fixed it.