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- Newsgroups: comp.text
- Subject: Re: ps -> dvi or ps -> *roff
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.164935.407@csc.canterbury.ac.nz>
- From: phys169@csc.canterbury.ac.nz
- Date: 19 Aug 92 16:49:35 +1200
- References: <1992Aug13.174859.5644@dcc.uchile.cl>
- Organization: University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
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- In article <1992Aug13.174859.5644@dcc.uchile.cl>, erodrigu@dcc.uchile.cl (Eduardo Rodriguez) writes:
- >
- > Does anyone know of a filter that give me a dvi file
- > from a postscript one?, or *roff from postscript?
- > I am NOT looking for a dvi2ps but ps2dvi.
- >
- It is possible to include (encapsulated) postscript in a tex document as
- "special" provided you have a good modern dvips (e.g. Radical Eye, I think),
- i.e. it passes the postscript onto the printer with little modification.
-
- But if you want to send it to a non-PostScript printer then you've got
- problems. The program would have to be a big and complicated as GhostScript to
- handle PostScript in general. Maybe if you know the ps file will only use a
- subset of PostScript you might be able to do something, but I don't know of any
- such program... I am interested in something like that, though. If you'd like
- to tell me what sort of PS files you need to be able to process, I might be
- able to write something.
-
- Mark Aitchison, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
-