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- From: jpjt@ukc.ac.uk (J.P.J.Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: dvips for use with PasTeX 1.3
- Message-ID: <1595@eagle.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 17:49:16 GMT
- References: <1992Sep5.073724.6033@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- Reply-To: jpjt@ukc.ac.uk (J.P.J.Thomas)
- Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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- In article <1992Sep5.073724.6033@ultb.isc.rit.edu> kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders ) writes:
- >
- > Does anyone know where to find the Amiga port of dvips? According
- >to the documentation from PasTeX 1.3, it does exist.
-
- It does indeed exist, and was ported by George Hesseman himself. It worked
- after a fashion, but for some reason font compression was broken. I have
- a slightly updated version to which I have added support for George's
- fontlibrary format and which has a working font compression scheme.
-
- It isn't entirely finished yet and I'm not sure when it will be since I have
- 60 more pages of Thesis to write in about 1 week!
-
- I'll try to upload it somewhere if people are interested, and I'd particularly
- like to hear any encouraging noises from George Hesseman.
-
- P.S. I hope to add caching of the font library directories in the near future
- so that they aren't continually reopened each time a font is requested, but
- I'm not sure when I'll have time!
- > The reason I ask is that I find that the output from TeX to be
- >somewhat lacking compared to Post 1.7 with real Adobe fonts or Final Copy.
- >There also appear to be some bugs in the DVIprint program (at least with the
- >LQ printer).
- >
- > - Kyle
-
- It could be that the fonts you're using were generated with non optimal
- settings in mf.modes. Changing some of the setings for extra blackening
- and o-correction etc. can have a quite drastic effect on the final quality
- of the fonts on a particular printer.
-
- - Julian
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