[comp.text.tex] DVI driver for LN05? psprint doesn' work.

bell@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (02/07/91)

In article <1991Feb6.153300.23946@athena.mit.edu>, dsw@marie.mit.edu
(WOODRUFF, DAVID S.) writes:

<< A whole bunch of stuff I don't want to repeat. >>

I've tried to reply twice to this message and ended up getting hung up.
I'll try again.

You might try giving the program DVI2LN3 a try. If the LN05 is like the
LN03 series of printers, it should work. The current version (which is, I
believe, 13.2) works on all models of LN03 (LN03, LN03+, LN03R) and may
work on the LN05 as well. It reads both PXL and PK files and works like a
DCL verb. This program is distributed on a DECUS tape, but the version
there is slightly out of date (there was a minor bug fix to make it work
properly on the LN03R). If you want the source code, I can provide that
(it's in C). The output of the program is a sixel file which can then just
be printed to the proper queue. Support for two different formats of
sixelized plot inclusion is also part of the program. By the way, one
reason I suspect that it will work on the LN05 just as well as the LN03
printers is that it works just fine on DECserver 20s, too.

If I get too many requests to provide the source code, I'll have to come up
with a better way to distribute it (placing the updated source on the DECUS
tapes come to mind), but for now I'll offer to send the source to anyone
who requests it.

I've distributed it as shareware over the course of the last four(?) years,
so pay me (for my modifications only, of course) if you feels it's worth
something. It might give me incentive to make more
modifications/improvements.

By the way, the original part of the code was written by Flavio Rose of DEC
in Mainard, Mass. All subsequent modifications have been made by me.

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