primer@math.harvard.edu (Jeremy Primer) (12/13/90)
Archive-name: tex/dviware/dvips/1990-12-12 Archive: labrea.stanford.edu:/pub/dvips54.tar.Z [36.8.0.47] Original-posting-by: primer@math.harvard.edu (Jeremy Primer) Original-subject: Re: Pageview on ps-files produced by dvi3ps Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) In article <6650@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> cheung@mathcs.emory.edu (Shun Yan Cheung) writes: The output of pageview on a ps file produced by dvi3ps is not a pretty sight. All the pages are display on top of each other and pageview also kindly tells you that it is displaying the first page of a one page document. Is there a dvi-to-ps program that produces pageview-able ps output ? Or maybe is there a fix in pageview available that can display dvi3ps outputs ? Many thanks. The author of pageview has said that the next release will have an option to allow for viewing non-conforming PostScript files. But the main problem is with the PostScript from dvi3ps, and not with pageview. We have just been through all this here. A very good answer, perhaps even the best answer, is to use T. Rokicki's dvips program. Ftp all four dvips tar files from labrea.stanford.edu or neon.stanford.edu, and read the 32-page manual. dvips will do everything dvi3ps does, with the possible exception of chtex (chinese TeX). It should be possible to make that work too. Note that you have to change your PSlatex macros (psfonts.sty) to the ones in the dvips distribution, using the virtual font system. Do not expect dvips to process old .dvi files which used any Postscript features. The thorniest point is that dvips DOES support psfig/TeX inclusion of PostScript files (as well as just about everything else), but the version of the psfig macro needed is different (psfig.tex itself, and not merely some PostScript header file). The solution is to get the dvips version of psfig (from upenn dist site), which was designed for Arbortext's commercial "dvips" but works for this one as well, but to forget about the PostScript header provided with it because Rokicki's "special.pro" header has all the psfig macros defined already. Then trash the dvi2ps-li (a.k.a. dvi3ps) version of psfig and tell users to reconstruct any .dvi files which make use of PostScript features or fonts. Do not really try to run both TeX drivers on the same system. If you are not the system administrator, please show this to your system administrator and inform him that dvips produces *conforming* PostScript files which are 30-80% shorter than those from dvi2ps-li, that it is blindingly fast, that it solves numerous other problems. It allows separate configuration files for each printer (to deal with, for example, old Apple LaserWriters with almost no Virtual Memory) and in fact has the most impressive and consistent set of configuration options that I have *ever* seen in a Unix program. (The MS-DOS version is also the subject of rave reviews.) The only adjustment we may be making for our users is to wrap it in a shell script which will recognize the "-f" and "-t" options they are accustomed to for specifying which pages to print (these have different names in dvips) and a couple of other nifty options. -- Jeremy Primer, Department of Mathematics, 1 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 primer@math.harvard.edu ...!harvard!zariski!primer primer@huma1.bitnet
chiu@brahms.amd.com (Timothy Chiu) (12/13/90)
Archive-name: tex/dviware/dvitops/1990-12-13 Archive: june.cs.washington.edu:/tex/dvitops.tar.Z [128.95.1.4] Original-posting-by: chiu@brahms.amd.com (Timothy Chiu) Original-subject: Re: Pageview on ps-files produced by dvi3ps Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Sorry, typo in that last followup, should have read: I'm currently using a package called dvitops written by James Clark. It works with pageview (i.e. I don't get overlapping pages, but even so it's limited to Sun's resolution). It's available anonymous ftp from june.cs.washington.edu (128.95.1.4) in ./tex/dvitops.tar.Z Timothy Chiu Advanced Micro Devices chiu@amd.com P.O.Box 3453 M/S 167 Sunnyvale,CA 95133