[comp.sys.next] Patches to dvips that let you preview the output using Preview

mic@ut-emx.UUCP (Mic (... K[a-z]+) Kaczmarczik) (05/29/89)

I spent some time this weekend modifying dvips, the DVI-to-PostScript
converter distributed with 0.9, to generate PostScript that is a
little more conformant with the Adobe document structuring
conventions.  I have had success previewing output from this modified
version using the Preview application in /NextDeveloper/Demos.

There are limitations, of course; for example, you can only preview
documents that use less than a megabyte of font memory.  However, it's
nice to be able to look at short documents on the display before
printing them.  Especially when there are Encapsulated PostScript
insertions in the figures. :-)

I've put a kit containing copies of the files I modified in the
anonymous FTP directory on emx.utexas.edu (128.83.1.33), in the
compressed tar file pub/next/dvips-patches.tar.Z.  There is also a
copy of the file in the anonymous FTP archive on cs.orst.edu, in
pub/next/submissions.  I can mail a uuencoded copy of the file to
anyone who can't access these sites.  You'll also need a copy of the
0.9 dvips sources, which may be found in /usr/lib/tex/ps/dvips.tar.Z
on any 0.9 system. 

Happy previewing,

Mic Kaczmarczik
User Services Unix Support Group
UT Austin Computation Center
mic@emx.utexas.edu

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jasmerb@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Bryce Jasmer) (05/29/89)

In article <13480@ut-emx.UUCP> mic@emx.utexas.edu (Mic Kaczmarczik) writes:
>There is also a
>copy of the file in the anonymous FTP archive on cs.orst.edu, in
>pub/next/submissions.

When submissions are made to the anonymous FTP archive they go in 
the directory pub/next/submissions and then I move them into a more
logical place. The patches are now located in pub/next/patches.

Bryce Jasmer
jasmerb@hobbes.cs.orst.edu
(next-ftp@cs.orst.edu)