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- From: Chris.Jeris@launchpad.unc.edu (Chris Jeris)
- Subject: Problems putting up dvips and dvilj2p
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- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1993 02:31:55 GMT
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- We have a standard TeX 3.141 installed on an IBM PC RT running AIX 2.2.1.
- It appears to produce dvi files just fine, but we are having trouble getting
- dvips and dvilj2p to work properly.
-
- dvips: This is Tomas Rokicki's dvips 5.497. I specify the -D300 option to
- set 300 dpi, as we are printing out on an Apple LaserWriter NT. (As far as
- I know this is PostScript 42.2.) I download the .ps file (which is created
- apparently without a hitch) over TCP/IP to a Macintosh and use Adobe's SendPS
- utility to dump it to the printer over LocalTalk. The output appears fine,
- except that the right half and left half of every character--EVERY character--
- are reversed. (Not mirror image; the character is chopped in half vertically
- and juxtaposed.) Incidentally, MusicTeX dvi's, when run through dvips,
- print fine except that vertical strips of width approximately 1/12 inch are
- transposed the same way. The other DVI-to-PS filter discussed in the FAQ,
- dvitops, works fine, but I would really like to know why dvips doesn't. I
- was suspicious that it may have been an endian problem, but I could not find
- an endian option to set when compiling. I'm stumped. (dvips and dvitops
- alike have to include font bitmaps in the PostScript as we have nothing
- resembling Computer Modern for the LaserWriters.)
-
- dvilj2p: Gustaf Neumann's dvilj2p 0.50, from simtel20. Again, the output file
- is generated without a hitch--a .lj in this case. But two different things
- happen when printing, depending on the method. If I download the file to my
- PC workstation and print over the Novell network, the file comes out on the
- LaserJet, but the fonts don't. The output contains (at least partially) the
- right characters in the right positions, but it's all in Courier 10cpi! (It
- tries REAL hard to get the positioning right, though.) But if I use lpr to
- send it to the LaserJet (a III) instead, the burst page comes out and then the
- printer complains "MEM OVERFLOW." There is a megabyte of RAM in this printer,
- and it complains when printing a 30k .lj file. The output contains only those
- characters for which fonts are available to the printer, which basically means
- lots of vowels scattered across the paper. I don't understand where it is
- going wrong. I compiled dvilj2p with the LARGE_FONT_MEMORY or something like
- that removed, and it still occurs.
-
- Can anyone help us out?
-
- Chris Jeris raiden@imsasun.imsa.edu The Illinois Math & Science Academy
- It's wonderful to be able to figure out all this while still in high school
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