eeandrew@cybaswan.UUCP (e c andrews) (01/29/91)
I'm trying to get our LaTeX system to cope with graph files exported from quattro in EPSF format. Having toiled and sweated, (re)discovered this group and the FAQ, toiled and failed again, I'm now turning to you for help! Originally I had (and have) a working latex system complete with previer (dvisun) and printers (div2ps, dvijep or dvieps). However, I wanted to be able to include those nice EPS files so I grabbed dvi3ps (v3.1, 11-16-89) and my problems began. As built, dvi3ps generated postscript with a bug in the fonts - certain characters would appear to have rubbish in their bitmaps. Comparison with the source of my working dvi2ps (v2.1, I think) revealed a disagreement of 1 in the calculation of one of the font description numbers (ok, so I don't really know how it works). Presumably this made it allocate too few bytes to store the bitmap leading to some kind of overflow and the errors that I saw. However, the fix that I made, while sorting that out, leads to a small number of random missing characters and causes ghostscript to crash after a few pages. The postscript printer misses out certain characters constantly, such as some letters, some maths symbols (eg integral), etc. And this is on a file with NO psfig stuff; the old dvi2ps works fine So, can anyone direct me to a working dvi->ps converter that incorporates psfig and gets on with the SUBDIR directory structure that we have here. (I looked at TeXPS but it seemed like too much effort to get it to use that structure, especially when it might now work either). Anyway, I've waffled enough. Can anyone help me? Please ? Eddy Andrews -- eeandrew@.pyr.swan.ac.uk UUCP: ..!ukc!cybaswan.UUCP!eeandrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "In the begining there was nothing, then there was me. Let there be light." - The Bomb, from Dark Star. (better with the funny voice)