rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (11/28/90)
If anyone has difficulties with dvips, I do attempt to help them as best I
can. But please,
- Try to duplicate the problem with as small a file as possible
- Send me both the TeX source and the PostScript output of dvips
- At the very least tell me the version number you are using
Over 95% of the `problems' involve:
- Not setting up the config.ps, MakeTeXPK, Makefile, or your own
.cshrc correctly
- Telling dvips there is more memory than the printer actually has
- Broken spoolers (dvips has options to get around these bugs)
- Broken interpreters (ditto, I think I've worked around all known bugs)
- Bad bounding boxes on PostScript graphics files
- Bad PostScript in included figures (I've worked around the bug in
Adobe Illustrator that caused such a problem)
- Not having a working METAFONT on your system
(load waits.mf into plain.base, folks)
I am positive there are plenty of bugs in 5.4, but there are none that I know
about, and 5.4 and its predecessors have been a very reliable workhorse for me.
I'm not really a grouch, and I appreciate any and all bug reports, even when
they turn out to be problems with other software. -tom