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In-Reply-To: <[e-mail]> (message from Chet Creider on Thu, 20 Jan 94 05:37:35 EST)
Subject: Re:  dvips


> > I just installed dvipsk-5.521a and noticed that the -r flag doesn't
> > work as advertised - the document prints back to forward regardless of
> > whether -r is on the command line.  Is there a workaround/fix for
> > this?
>
> I had trouble with this too, but since compiling dvips came at the end
> of installing TeX3.141 I didn't have the energy to track down the
> source of the problem (either no mention of this or insufficient mention
> in the configure/readme materials for one thing).  The simple fix is to
> go to config.ps (in /usr/local/lib/tex/dvips in a standard installation)
> and delete the lines reading:
>    * Reverse the pages, ...
>    *
>    r
>
> That's all there is to it.

If the `config.ps' file says that page reversing is the default, then
you have to specify -r0 on the command line to turn it off.  (The
dvips manual, p. 25, second paragraph of section 7).

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Frank Jensen,   [e-mail]
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Aalborg University
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