[comp.text.tex] [comp.text.tex] Re: Postscript figures in TeX/LaTeX

ehrlich@cs.psu.edu (Daniel Ehrlich) (02/24/90)

In article <11125@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu> verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber) writes:

Mark> Archive-name: dvi3ps/23-Feb-90
Mark> Original-posting-by: verber@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Mark A. Verber)
Mark> Original-subject: Re: Postscript figures in TeX/LaTeX
Mark> Archive-site: pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu [128.146.37.18]
Mark> Archive-directory: /pub/tex
Mark> Archive-files: dvi3ps.tar.Z
Mark> Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)

Mark> In article <E_mxwg@cs.psu.edu> jim@euler.math.psu.edu (Jim Duncan) writes:
>
>You should use version 3.1 of dvi2ps which was put together by Kevin
>Coombes, <kevin@math.lsa.umich.edu>.  Apparently there are many different
>versions of dvi2ps floating around the network, each the product of a
>different branch of development -- what works with one dvi2ps might not work
>with another.  Mr. Coombes has combined the best of many different versions.
>

Mark> I agree.  Kevin has done a great job combining all the versions of dvi2ps
Mark> into a single version which does everything.  I would love to see people
Mark> start working on Kevin's merge and nuke the rest.

Mark> Kevin put up his dvi2ps on: tut.cis.ohio-state.edu:/pub/dvi3ps.tar.Z
Mark> There is also a copy on pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu:/pub/tex/dvi3ps.tar.Z

I noticed that there is also a pub/dvips/dvips40.tar.Z on tut.  But it is
older than dvi3ps.tar.Z.  Does any one know what the differences are?
Should I care?

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