hughes@azroth.csee.usf.EDU (Ken Hughes) (11/21/90)
We've started using dvimac to allow our users to preview dvi files on our Apple ImageWWriters, but there are already complaints about not being able to view files included from figprep and psfig. Does anything exist which will convert PostScript to dvi? (I realize that a full PostScript emulator is a major task, but it would seems that the usefulness of this would have led someone somewhere to hack at it using existing code). Hey, just askin'. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ken Hughes (hughes@sol.csee.usf.edu) | "Which button do I press to turn FT-Ph D student, PT-ex-sysadm | it off?" "Try the red one, Dept of Comp Sci and Eng | allright?" "Which red button?" University of South Florida | from _Heathers_ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Erik-jan.Vens@samba.acs.unc.edu (Erik-jan Vens) (11/21/90)
As far as I know (and mostly, yes, I do know) a tool such as you request
does not exist.
But, for us poor people, there is an el cheapo solution. Get
GhostScript. This is the GNU implementation of Postscript. You can find
it on a lot of FTP addresses in the GNU directory. E.g. on
prep.ai.mit.edu, which is home-of-gnu.
The program works good, *BUT* there is a big *BUT*! If you use
GhostScript because you're poor, chances are good, you cannot afford to
buy expensive fonts. So you'll have to use the el cheapo/for free fonts
that come with the package. This makes the output much less than
attractive, but sometimes when you have to choose between ugly prints and
no print at all, sometimes, you might want to decide in favour of
printing. And this is where GhostScript comes in handy.
Erik-Jan. Vens@Rug.NL
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