[comp.text.tex] Dvips 533

rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (08/11/90)

Dvips final beta for 5.4 released.

Get dvips533.tar.Z from labrea.stanford.edu, and check it out.  If it
doesn't do what you want, get back to me, since this is probably the
final beta before the 5.4 release, which should last a long time.
Many, many bug fixes and new features.

An option (-l) to select the last page.
Method for selecting pages whose count0 number occurs more than once.
Added some amount of searching in addition to auto magstep dpi.
Graphics now (optionally) scale with dvimag
Font scaling now supported (yuck.)
S option added to enclose whole document in save/restore
Virtual fonts *fixed*---please install new tfm/vf files.
Prolog hacked so showpage-redefinition tricks work.
bop-hook, eop-hook, start-hook, and end-hook added.
E (for execute) added to configuration file.
Added search for config.user so the user can put his

Many other changes and additions.  If you didn't check the other
betas, this is the one to check; if you did, please make sure that
the changes you required made it in.  Thank you, everyone, for the
help!

-tom