TEX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk (04/18/91)
Archive-name: tex/dviware/vms-dvitoln03/1991--22 Archive-directory: ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.drivers.ukln03] [134.173.4.23] Original-posting-by: TEX@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk Reposted-by: emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti, MSEN) (The following announcement appeared three weeks ago in UKTeX; I have deferred the announcment in TeXhax until assured of the program's availability by anonymous FTP on the Internet. BHK 22-MAR-1991) DVItoLN03 Version 4.0 27th February 1991 This new release of DVItoLN03 provides support for virtual fonts, for mixing portrait and landscape orientation in a document (including on the same page) and for the newer DEClaser printers (LN05 & LN06), as well as managing to effect a 25% increase in speed: it has been placed in the UK TeX Archive as follows: Sources, documentation and other support: in [tex-archive.drivers.ln03.rmcs] -- get 00files.txt for details Binary files (can only be transferred to a VAX, using TRANSFER/CODE=FAST): in [tex-archive.binary.vms.drivers.dvitoln03] DVITOLN03.OBJ -- ought to link under any version of VMS DVITOLN03.EXE -- linked under VMS V5.3-1 DVITOLN03.BCK -- BACKUP save set containing the complete distribution; sites able to effect NIFTP can usefully fetch the whole shebang in one go. ************************************************************************ * * * Please ensure that you fetch and read the 00README.TXT file. * * * ************************************************************************ Internet Access =============== Thanks to the good offices of Sankara Rao and Don Hosek, the new version of DVItoLN03 is now available Stateside as follows (note that the .EXE file needs to be transferred as 512-byte fixed-length blocks; the .OBJ file is, of course, variable-length no-carriage_control. File DVItoLN03.SAVE_SET contains everything except the two .STY files as a backup save set, but is recorded as 32256-byte fixed-length blocks: being based in the UK, I don't know whether it's feasible to transfer such a file by anonymous FTP!) From power.eee.ndsu.nodak.edu [134.129.123.1] by anonymous FTP; files present as follows--- DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]00README.TXT;1 21/21 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]CHANGEBAR.STY;1 46/48 19-MAR-1991 18:16 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVILN03.HLP;13 25/30 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVILN03.LN3_PUBLISH;1 836/837 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVILN03.TEX_PUBLISH;12 255/258 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.CH;2 5/9 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.CLD;33 13/18 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.EXE;1 282/285 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.OBJ;1 455/456 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.SAVE_SET;2 3213/3213 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]DVITOLN03.WEB;16 902/906 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]GRAPHICS.STY;1 3/3 19-MAR-1991 18:16 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]LOCAL_GUIDES.BIB;45 16/18 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]OPENCLOSE.SIX;6 14/18 18-MAR-1991 09:07 DISK$FTP:[DVILN03]OPENCLOSE.SMALL;3 14/18 18-MAR-1991 09:07 From ymir.claremont.edu [134.173.4.23] by anonymous FTP; files present as follows--- LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX.DRIVERS.UKLN03] 00FILES.TXT;1 3 13-MAR-1991 15:34 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) 00README.TXT;1 21 25-FEB-1991 18:53 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) CHANGEBAR.STY;1 46 21-MAR-1991 09:38 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) DVILN03.HLP;13 25 26-FEB-1991 11:52 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVILN03.LN3_PUBLISH;1 836 25-FEB-1991 16:26 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVILN03.TEX_PUBLISH;12 255 25-FEB-1991 16:29 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.CH;2 5 27-FEB-1991 11:52 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.CLD;33 13 26-FEB-1991 12:17 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.EXE;1 282 27-FEB-1991 12:16 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.OBJ;1 455 27-FEB-1991 12:15 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.WEB;16 902 27-FEB-1991 11:52 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) GRAPHICS.STY;1 3 21-MAR-1991 09:38 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) LOCAL_GUIDES.BIB;45 16 21-FEB-1991 19:24 (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) OPENCLOSE.SIX;6 14 21-AUG-1989 19:25 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) OPENCLOSE.SMALL;3 14 21-AUG-1989 19:26 (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) Total of 2890 blocks in 15 files. Features and functions ====================== This implementation of DVItoLN03 has the following advantages over certain other DVItoLN03 programs (these are not in order of importance; the new features are at the end of the list): i) It IS written in WEB, as opposed to C and other such kludgy languages. ii) It downloads to the LN03's font memory the rasters for only those characters actually used in the document. As such, it does not run out of font memory just because you've used a few characters from each of a large number of different fonts. iii) It has a capacity for SIMPLE graphics inclusions. These have to be in a format the LN03 understands (DEC sixels), and are copied verbatim into the output file generated. (Can also manage Tektronix insertions on the LN03-plus.) iv) It works in landscape and portrait orientations. v) It makes use of the ``proper'' VAX/VMS DCL interface for commands. vi) It CAN print glyphs whose rasters are too large to be downloaded to the LN03 as a font file (by performing a sixel graphics dump of the bitmap); obviously this slows things down considerably! vii) It CAN handle the invisible fonts used by SliTeX; each such character is actually downloaded as a null character locator, ans is imaged by the appropriate amount of whitespace. viii) Either packed or unpacked font files (or both) may be provided in either flat or rooted directory structures; if logical names are used to specify these locations (as in the .CLD file provided), the files may be spread over a number of different directories or volumes. ix) The error messages are improved over earlier versions of the program, and are now all indexed in the woven (WEAVEd?) WEB. They are also all listed in the users' manual. x) The program can now handle fonts with more then 128 characters, up to TeX's limit of 256. Therefore, it can now process documents which use Silvio Levy's Greek fonts. xi) Retention of the log (.TYP) file may now be forced, suppressed, or allowed to be determined by the success of the processing. xii) Minor revisions and corrections have been made, in particular, it now correctly understands the physical limitations to the imaging area. xiii) Correct some log reports; report files read (except font files); provide the /OUTPUT qualifier, to permit utilization of a scratch directory or direct spooling to the output device. xiv) Support for Flavio Rose \special commands, for drawing changebars, was added by Robin Fairbairns at Laser Scan of Cambridge, UK. xv) TeX Font Metrics (TFM files) are no longer sought in the hard-wired directory TEX$FONTS:, but are instead controlled through the /TFM_DIRECTORY qualifier. xvi) Support for Virtual Fonts; the .VF files are sought in whatever is specified as the value of the /VIRTUAL_DIRECTORY qualifier; users can speed processing fractionally by specifying /NOVIRTUAL_DIRECTORY if it is known that no virtual fonts are used in the document. If virtual fonts are never used at your site, make this the default. xvii) Fonts for which the program cannot find any rasters no longer cause the processing to be abandoned; solid rules of appropriate dimensions are substituted for each missing glyph. xviii)Landscape and portrait mode material may be mixed within a document, and even on a single page, through \special{landscape} and \special{portrait}. However, some suitable style option still needs to be written to make this feature useful rather than a curiosity! xix) Qualifiers /LEFT_MARGIN and /TOP_MARGIN now take a dimension (eg 1in) rather than being required to be entered in pixels; the additional <physical unit> called PX (pixel) has been added to TeX's normal set. xx) Support for the new DEClaser 2100 and 2200 printers has been provided by Karsten Nyblad of the Danish Telecomms Research Lab. Users can select the paper source tray, separately for the first and subsequent sheets, and also the printing mode (simplex or duplex). There is even a duplex mode for the ordinary LN03 (no, it doesn't really print two-sided!) which, by interspersing blank sheets at appropriate points, produces a single-sided master suitable for photocopying directly to a double-sided document. xxi) Last, but definitely not least, the program has been speeded up, in both the font mapping and the imaging phases, so that overall it runs approximately 25% faster than V3.1-4. Author: B Hamilton Kelly Royal Military College of Science Shrivenham SWINDON UK SN6 8LA Swindon (++44 793) 785252 [Direct line] or via JANET: tex@uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs INTERNET: tex%uk.ac.cranfield.rmcs@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Bitnet: tex@rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk UUCP: {mcsun,uunet,ukc}!rmcs.cranfield.ac.uk!tex Good Luck! Brian HAMILTON KELLY -- comp.archives file verification ymir.claremont.edu LOCAL:[ANONYMOUS.TEX.DRIVERS.UKLN03] 00FILES.TXT;2 3 27-MAR-1991 16:13 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) 00README.TXT;1 21 25-FEB-1991 18:53 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) CHANGEBAR.STY;1 46 21-MAR-1991 09:38 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) DVILN03.HLP;13 25 26-FEB-1991 11:52 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVILN03.LN3_PUBLISH;1 836 25-FEB-1991 16:26 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVILN03.TEX_PUBLISH;12 255 25-FEB-1991 16:29 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.CH;2 5 27-FEB-1991 11:52 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.CLD;33 13 26-FEB-1991 12:17 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.EXE;1 282 27-FEB-1991 12:16 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.OBJ;1 455 27-FEB-1991 12:15 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) DVITOLN03.WEB;16 902 27-FEB-1991 11:52 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) GRAPHICS.STY;1 3 21-MAR-1991 09:38 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) LOCAL_GUIDES.BIB;45 16 21-FEB-1991 19:24 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWE,RWED,RE,RE) OPENCLOSE.SIX;6 14 21-AUG-1989 19:25 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) OPENCLOSE.SMALL;3 14 21-AUG-1989 19:26 [CSV_GUEST,DHOSEK] (RWED,RWED,RE,RE) Total of 2890 blocks in 15 files. found vms-dvitoln03 ok ymir.claremont.edu:[anonymous.tex.drivers.ukln03]