[comp.text.tex] New dvips available

rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki) (07/20/90)

Announcing:  A beta release of the new dvips.

Now supports virtual fonts as well as many other extensions, fixes many
bugs, and is in general ready to be tested.

Get dvips53.tar.Z from labrea.stanford.edu:~ftp/pub.  This is a beta
release; when it is stable, version 5.4 will be released.

Comments and bugs to rokicki@cs.stanford.edu.

Some of the more recently added features:

	- Accepts bounding box without space after colon.
	- Indicates what PS fonts are needed in comment.
	- Automatically includes fonts that aren't resident by default.
	- Supports `~' for the HOME directory in paths.
	- Supports odd aspect ratios.
	- Supports tpic 2.0.
	- Fixed var-args problem in afm2tfm.
	- Fixed font compression bug.
	- Some other odds and ends repaired.

*NOTE:  5.3 is a beta release; 5.4 will be released when beta is finished.*