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- How to create faxes using PasTeX and AmigaFax?
-
- 1) Append the files 'config/DVIprint.printers' and 'config/modes', which
- accompanied this ReadMe-file, to 'TeX:config/DVIprint.printers' and
- 'TeX:config/modes' respectively.
-
- 2) Append 'inputs/PasTeX-modes.mf' to 'TeX:inputs/PasTeX-modes.mf'.
-
- 3) Now you have to rerun Metafont. Issue the command
-
- cd TeX:bases
- inimf plain.inimf
-
- or execute the script 'MakeMFBase'.
-
- 4) 'DVIprint.printers' contains the definitions of two new printer drivers,
- namely FaxFine (216 x 216dpi) and FaxNormal (216 x 108dpi).
-
- Everything is set up now, but you still have to create the new 216dpi fonts.
-
- The easiest way to achieve this is as follows:
-
- a) Create a TeX-document, you wish to send as a fax.
- b) There are a two possible ways to convert a dvi-file into a fax: You either
- direct the output of DVIprint to an iff-ilbm-file, include it in an AmigaFax
- document via the '.INC'-command and then compile this document using mkafax or
- you just use dvifax to convert a dvi-file into a fax. The latter is more
- efficient and saves you from the iff-ilbm-kludge.
-
- But remember your situation: you do not have any fonts, yet, and dvifax does
- not automatically invoke Metafont in order to create the fonts needed. This
- is why I suggest that you use DVIprint to create the fonts and later on use
- dvifax. In order to create fonts you should invoke DVIprint, specify FaxFine
- or FaxNormal as your printer driver and direct the output to an iff-ilbm-file.
-
- c) If everything worked fine, Metafont has created new fonts which now reside
- in your TeX:pk directory. Make sure that these fonts are located in directories
- like TeX:pk/216 or TeX:pk/311 etc., otherwise dvifax will not find them.
-
- Supposing you do not use different fonts or magnifications in your TeX-document
- created under a), you can from now on use dvifax to create your faxes. If dvifax
- fails to find a font, you should reassure yourself whether the respective font
- is located in the proper directory or whether it exisists at all. In the latter
- case you have to invoke Metafont as described under b).
-
- Fax support for PasTeX has been provided for you by
-
- Martin Horneffer <maho@dfv.rwth-aachen.de>
- <AC.maus>
- <AC2.maus>
- <Martin_Horneffer@mowgli.fido.de>
- <2:242/7.9@Fidonet>
-
- and
-
- Martin Steppler <steppler@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de>
- <Martin_Steppler@mowgli.fido.de>
- <2:242/7.12>
-