steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) (06/10/90)
Has anyone ported Stephan v. Bechtolsheim's dvitps program to System V or
MSDOS? It's on the UnixTeX tape under DVIware, and appears to have been
developed on a Sun (or similar BSD-based Unix system). Does anyone have
any opinions about how it compares with the other Postscript drivers? The
only other one i have currently is Beebe's dvialw driver, but i've never
tried using native PostScript fonts or including PostScript figures with
that driver.
Actually, i've spent a couple of days on it and seem to have it running okay
under SCO UNIX/V 3.2, for what it's worth. However, i'd be happy to adopt
an "official" patch, or to offer my work if nobody else has done so yet. (The
14-character filename limit of System V irritates me more every day!) :-( :-(
Also, I'll have to clean up my patches a bit to get it work for MSDOS.
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In article <274@txsil.lonestar.org> steve@txsil.lonestar.org (Steve McConnel) writes:
Has anyone ported Stephan v. Bechtolsheim's dvitps program to System V or
MSDOS? It's on the UnixTeX tape under DVIware, and appears to have been
developed on a Sun (or similar BSD-based Unix system). Does anyone have
any opinions about how it compares with the other Postscript drivers? The
Rokicki's dvips has been ported to MSDOS (a few small changes are
necessary) - someone put it on labrea.stanford.edu. Clark's dvitops
was written from scratch to work under MSDOS and Unix. Both these
offer more or less all the features you would want. I've nothing
against dvitps, but unless you are addicted to some detail of its
facilities, you might as well save effort and use one of the others.
So far as I know, dvips is still the only one to support virtual
fonts.
version 3.0 of Beebe's driver family will appear sometime this year, I
think. From the spec, it looks set to do all you need in a dvi to PS driver,
and will, of course, work straightaway under MSDOS.
sebastian
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