[comp.archives] [comp.text.tex] Re: dvi2ps

kevin@math.lsa.umich.edu (Kevin Coombes) (02/24/90)

Archive-name: ivd2dvi/24-Feb-90
Original-posting-by: kevin@math.lsa.umich.edu (Kevin Coombes)
Original-subject: Re: dvi2ps
Archive-site: june.cs.washington.edu [128.95.1.4]
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

In article <30080@sparkyfs.istc.sri.com> zwicky@pterodactyl.itstd.sri.com writes:
>   I'm using dvi3ps (Kevin Coombe's dvi2ps amalgamations) and I have only
>   two problems. First, I had to make minor mods to use ledger-sized
>   paper, not that the two lines were a big problem. Now, however, I wish
>   to print dvi-ivd files. Does anyone have a dvi2ps that supports the
>   extensions to typeset right to left?

I didn't include support for dvi-ivd when I merged various versions of
dvi2ps for a number of reasons. Mainly, the concensus among the
experts seems to be that such extensions should be handled by
filtering programs and not directly by printer drivers. There is a
program called ivd2dvi, by Larry Denenberg, available by anonymous ftp
from june.cs.washington.edu (as part of the standard Unix TeX
distribution) which converts dvi-ivd files to ordinary dvi files which
can then be printed by any printer driver.

Kevin Coombes <kevin@math.lsa.umich.edu>