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- From: fischer@physun.physics.mcmaster.ca (Phil Fischer)
- Subject: Re: Including PostScript figures; problems with xdvi on Sun?
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- Organization: Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, McMaster University
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- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:01:24 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug13.150857.29856@ctr.columbia.edu> anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo) writes:
- >About including PS files in a Latex document...
- >
- >I've been trying this for a while now, with no success. I have gotten
- >the psfig.sty file, and have a PS file that has been created with XtoPS.
- >By running Latex on the file (pap0.tex) I get no errors, but while running
- >xdvi (I'm running this on a Sun IPX w/ OpenWindows 2.0), I get the main
- >text of what is in my file, without the pictures. Any ideas why this might
- >not be working? It does seem that enough space is created for the figure,
- >but all I get is a big blank space.
- >
- >Here's the error message from xdvi:
- >
- >[ anselmo@cumesb ~/text/tex ]: xdvi pap0
- >xdvi: special "dvitps: Include0 "psfig.pro"" not implemented
- >xdvi: special "dvitps: Literal "38153420 26510049 1052508 12761661 39205928 39271710 startTexFig "" not implemented
- >xdvi: special "dvitps: Include1 "/home/cumesb/anselmo/text/tex/a.ps"" not implemented
- >xdvi: special "dvitps: Literal "endTexFig " " not implemented
- >[ anselmo@cumesb ~/text/tex ]:
- >
- >Thanks.
- >
- >-A.
- >
- >
- >--
- >-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- > Andrew Anselmo / Department of Mechanical Engineering / Columbia University
- > 236A SW Mudd Building 212-854-2965 / anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu
- >
-
- xdvi only displays the .dvi file. If you are including a postscript figure
- this is not included until you use dvips (or on of its variants) to make a
- postscript file. At that point the file is all postscript and you can
- display it with a postscript previewer (i.e. ghostscript, pageview).
-
- Phil
-
-