wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan) (09/17/90)
I have previously picked up and installed dvi2ps version 3.1 and am generally
happy with it. However, I recently was given a copy of dvips version 5.37.
Two questions:
1) Are the *.sty and *.tfm files that come with dvips 5.37 compatible
with the ones that came with dvi2ps?
2) There are additonal [font].tfm files that came with dvips that did
not appear with dvi2ps. These have the full PostScript name of the font and are of considerably different lengths. Sadly, my
SYSV-based system only supports 14-character file names and so
truncates the names. What are these files used for and do I need
to install them for most purposes?
A more general question: What does dvips do that dvi2ps doesn't?
Thanks for your help!
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Oh, so there ARE 2 of those [dvi2ps and dvips]. The local documentation referred to one of them but it was the other that was installed, and now I am confused again [just learning TeX here]. I look forward for someone to review these two program, describe the difference, and tell where the sources are. Thanks. --Phil Howard, KA9WGN-- | Individual CHOICE is fundamental to a free society <phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> | no matter what the particular issue is all about.
spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz) (09/21/90)
In article <1048100003@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
Oh, so there ARE 2 of those [dvi2ps and dvips]. The local documentation
...
I look forward for someone to review these two program, describe the
difference, and tell where the sources are. Thanks.
ah the innocence of youth... I am by means an exhaustive expert on
these things, but in my short live I have met at least
- dvi2ps (in more versions than you care to know about)
- dvi3ps (a good attempt at bring together the previous)
- dvips (rokicki)
- dvitops (clark)
- dvitps (bechtolsheim)
- dvialw (beebe)
which are freely available for Unix people. personally, I would go for
dvips or dvitops - I know of no features than one or the other does
not support. dvips from labrea.stanford.edu in pub, dvitops from
june.cs.washington.edu.
sebastian
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Southampton S09 5NH, UK S.Rahtz@sot-ecs.uucp (uucp)hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) (01/07/91)
In article <139@dogmelb.dog.oz.au> david@dogmelb.dog.oz.au (David Le Blanc) writes:
Also, dvips541 by Tom Rokicki is the best dvi2ps program I have *EVER*
used! Just thought I'd say that..
Hmmm, yes, it has lots of good features, but when I last tried it the
printer spent 2-3 times at much time per page with dvips output than
with dvialw output. That was dvips version 5.02, though. Does
version 5.41 produce more efficient code? Have others noticed the
same thing? We have an Imagen 2308/S printer, and its PostScript
processor can usually process TeX pages as fast as the print engine
can crank them out. With dvips output, it's a different story
altogether.
- Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@imf.unit.no>
Division of Mathematical Sciences
The Norwegian Institute of Technology
N-7034 Trondheim, NORWAYfischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) (01/08/91)
>>>>> On 7 Jan 91 15:58:59 GMT, hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) said:
Harald> Hmmm, yes, it has lots of good features, but when I last tried it the
Harald> printer spent 2-3 times at much time per page with dvips output than
Harald> with dvialw output.
In my experience, dvips is a lot faster than just about any other
dvi->ps program I have tried, *especially* for large output.
dvips works a bit differently than most other dvi->ps programs: it
tries to download all fonts and other postscript setup before it
starts printing. This means that there will be a delay before printing
begins, but after that it prints at nearly the maximum speed for the
print engine (~7.8 ppm on QMS PS/810).
For single page documents this setup won't help much, of course. Also,
it is important to set the amount of RAM in the printer correctly in
the setup.ps file.
Harald> We have an Imagen 2308/S printer, and its PostScript
Harald> processor can usually process TeX pages as fast as the print engine
Harald> can crank them out. With dvips output, it's a different story
Harald> altogether.
I've never seen such a beast, so I can't say. With QMS and Apple
printer, dvips flies.
/Lars
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>> Also, dvips541 by Tom Rokicki is the best dvi2ps program I have *EVER* >Hmmm, yes, it has lots of good features, but when I last tried it the >printer spent 2-3 times at much time per page with dvips output than If you use -Z, the compressed fonts, then the printer will take a little longer to process each page. Also, note that different versions used different methods to draw rules, and this may impact the performance. The pending 5.42 (this weekend?) should work relatively quickly on any PostScript device. (The reason that rules are slower with dvips than with other dvi to PS drivers is because of alignment problems between characters and rules if rules are drawn with fill instead of image . . .) -tom
hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) (01/13/91)
In article <FISCHER.91Jan7182756@thiele.iesd.auc.dk> fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: >>>>> On 7 Jan 91 15:58:59 GMT, hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) said: Harald> Hmmm, yes, it has lots of good features, but when I last tried it the Harald> printer spent 2-3 times at much time per page with dvips output than Harald> with dvialw output. In my experience, dvips is a lot faster than just about any other dvi->ps program I have tried, *especially* for large output. [...] Also, it is important to set the amount of RAM in the printer correctly in the setup.ps file. I presume you mean config.ps. I took your advice and upgraded to dvips 5.41 at the same time, and dvips now performs quite well, thank you very much. Time to convert to dvips I figure. - Harald
ng@neutron.mpr.ca (Steve Ng) (03/08/91)
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lubkt@spectrum.CC.Lehigh.EDU (Binod K. Taterway) (05/03/91)
I could not figure out how to rotate a postscript figure under psfig/dvips. The figure was landscaped, and I wanted it rotated 90 degrees clockwise. Is there any like packages that is more robust that psfig, or am I missing something in psfig. In my last report, I had to cut and paste, like good--old days. -- Binod Taterway | lubkt@spectrum.CC.Lehigh.EDU Sr. User Consultant | bt00@lehigh.BITNET Lehigh University Computing Center | (215) 758-3984 (off) Bethlehem, PA 18015 | (215) 758-4983 (fax)
rokicki@neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (06/07/91)
These are the files:
dvips.ps.Z A compressed PostScript version of the dvips manual.
dvips54.tar.Z Old version of dvips---source.
dvips547.tar.Z Current version of dvips---source.
dvipsafm.tar.Z AFM files for PS fonts---not needed.
dvipslib.tar.Z VF and TFM files needed to use PS fonts.
-tom