[comp.text.tex] Summary of responses to problems with \special

weintrb@CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU (Mike Weintraub) (09/21/90)

Thank you to all for the helpful suggestions.  In recap, some ps files
created via framemaker were included into a latex document via \special.  I
still can't get it to work, but there were basically three suggestions on
things to try:

1. figure off the page.  The included file's bottom left corner is put in the
upper right corner of the page.  Try voffset and hoffset.

2. Printer running out of memory.  Try printing out one page (dvi2ps -f -t)
or use a printer with a bigger memory.

3.  Use something other than framemaker to make your figures.  Apparently
macdraw (or whatever)'s prolog kills printer memory.  Apparently xfig and
idraw work better.  Apparently frame is doing something screwy with their
brand of postscript that results in the figures created using it not being
printed out.

If anyone ever does figure this out please let me know.  I tried playing with
the offsets and actually got a figure out on the page.  I also tried a
printer with a big memory and printing out only one page - no luck here.  I
also tried playing with the frame postscript only to find I was learning more
about postscript than I really cared to and that I couldn't get the figure
out (I with major league help from John Kolen came close, but somehow part of
the figure caused 0/0 to be evaluated.  This is a bad thing).