krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au (Alex Krooglik) (05/04/91)
I wish to know how one obtains good quality output on a 24 pin printer. I have the program "Post", but I am not sure how to read in a PostScript file and get it to print. I have in mind using TeX, so if anyone could help me output a DVI file to a PostScript FILE, I would much appreciate it. --------krooglik@ecr.mu.OZ---- + Alex Krooglik |________________ + Faculty of Chemical Engineering |__________ +_______University of Melbourne________________________|
geoffo@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Geoff Oakley) (05/07/91)
In article <7492@munnari.oz.au> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au (Alex Krooglik) writes:
I wish to know how one obtains good quality output on a 24
pin printer. I have the program "Post", but I am not sure how to
read in a PostScript file and get it to print.
I have in mind using TeX, so if anyone could help me output
a DVI file to a PostScript FILE, I would much appreciate it.
For DVI -> 24 pin dot matrix I would recommend a driver from Radical
Eye Software (aka Tom Rokicki, the source of AmigaTeX). They are
faster and better looking than any other dot matrix drivers I have
seen. They will cost approx $100.
If that is too much, there are several products around based on Nelson
Beebe's set. Maybe someone on the net can help there.
Whatever you do, remember you will also need fonts at the appropriate
resolution for the printer. It is handy having access to METAFONT to
generate odd sizes when you need them. Again I recomend MF from
Radical Eye.
Regarding `post'. My understanding is that `post' takes a postscript
file and generates a bitmap. This is probably not what you want, as
you seem to be missing the DVI -> Postscript translator, and also the
program to print a post-generated bitmap to your printer.
If you do want to generate postscript (if you have access to a
laserprinter) then there is a public domain dvips (also from Tom
Rokicki) which is pretty good.
Yet another plug for AmigaTeX: my latest newsletter claims that all
Tom's printer drivers now have full postscript support.
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