Celestin Apprentice 4/Apprentice-Release4.iso/Utilities/Text/OzTeX 1.9/Dvips/dvips/dvips.rsrc/TEXT_128_Info.txt

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     Below is an adaptation of the Unix manual page for dvips.
     It is a quick reference for the options of dvips, especially
     if you run dvips in command mode. For a complete description
     of dvips, see the manual dvips.tex.

     NAME
          dvips - convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript

     SYNOPSIS
          dvips [ options ] file[.dvi]

     DESCRIPTION
          The program dvips takes a DVI file file[.dvi] produced by
          TeX (or by some other processor such as GFtoDVI) and
          converts it to PostScript.  Fonts used may either be
          resident in the printer or defined as bitmaps in PK files,
          or a `virtual' combination of both.  Dvips will automatically
          invoke METAFONT to generate fonts that don't already exist.

          For more information, see the manual dvips.tex.

     OPTIONS
          -a   Conserve memory by making three passes over the .dvi
               file instead of two and only loading those characters
               actually used.  Generally only useful on machines with
               a very limited amount of memory.

          -A   Print only odd pages (TeX pages, not sequence pages).

          -b num
               Generate num copies of each page, but duplicating the
               page body rather than using the #numcopies option.
               This can be useful in conjunction with a header file
               setting char92bop-hook to do color separations or other
               neat tricks.

          -B   Print only even pages (TeX pages, not sequence pages).

          -c num
               Generate num copies of every page.  Default is 1.  (For
               collated copies, see the -C option below.)

          -C num
               Create num copies, but collated (by replicating the
               data in the PostScript file).  Slower than the -c
               option, but easier on the hands, and faster than
               resubmitting the same PostScript file multiple times.

          -d num
               Set the debug flags.  This is intended only for
               emergencies or for unusual fact-finding expeditions; it
               will work only if dvips has been compiled with the
               DEBUG option.  For more information on possible values
               see section 15 of dvips.tex.

          -D num
               Set the resolution in dpi (dots per inch) to num. This
               affects the choice of bitmap fonts that are loaded and
               also the positioning of letters in resident PostScript
               fonts. Must be between 10 and 10000.  This affects both
               the horizontal and vertical resolution.  If a high
               resolution (something greater than 400 dpi, say) is
               selected, the -Z flag should probably also be used.

          -e num
               Make sure that each character is placed at most this
               many pixels from its `true' resolution-independent
               position on the page. The default value of this
               parameter is resolution dependent.  Allowing individual
               characters to `drift' from their correctly rounded
               positions by a few pixels, while regaining the true
               position at the beginning of each new word, improves
               the spacing of letters in words.

          -E   makes dvips attempt to generate an EPSF file with a
               tight bounding box.  This only works on one-page files,
               and it only looks at marks made by characters and
               rules, not by any included graphics.  In addition, it
               gets the glyph metrics from the tfm file, so characters
               that lie outside their enclosing tfm box may confuse
               it.  In addition, the bounding box might be a bit too
               loose if the character glyph has significant left or
               right side bearings.  Nonetheless, this option works
               well for creating small EPSF files for equations or
               tables or the like.  (Note, of course, that dvips
               output is resolution dependent and thus does not make
               very good EPSF files, especially if the images are to
               be scaled; use these EPSF files with a great deal of
               care.)

          -F   Causes Control-D (ASCII code 4) to be appended as the
               very last character of the PostScript file.  This is
               useful when dvips is driving the printer directly
               instead of working through a spooler, as is common on
               extremely small systems.  NOTE! DO NOT USE THIS OPTION!

          -h name
               Prepend file name as an additional header file.
               (However, if the name is simply `-' suppress all header
               files from the output.)  This header file gets added to
               the PostScript userdict.

          -i   Make each section be a separate file.  Under certain
               circumstances, dvips will split the document up into
               `sections' to be processed independently; this is most
               often done for memory reasons.  Using this option tells
               dvips to place each section into a separate file; the
               new file names are created replacing the suffix of the
               supplied output file name by a three-digit sequence
               number.  This option is most often used in conjunction
               with the -S option which sets the maximum section
               length in pages.  For instance, some phototypesetters
               cannot print more than ten or so consecutive pages
               before running out of steam; these options can be used
               to automatically split a book into ten-page sections,
               each to its own file.

          -k   Print crop marks.  This option increases the paper size
               (which should be specified, either with a paper size
               special or with the -T option) by a half inch in each
               dimension.  It translates each page by a quarter inch
               and draws cross-style crop marks.  It is mostly useful
               with typesetters that can set the page size
               automatically.

          -K   This option causes comments in included PostScript
               graphics, font files, and headers to be removed.  This
               is sometimes necessary to get around bugs in spoolers
               or PostScript post-processing programs.  Specifically,
               the %%Page comments,  when left in, often cause
               difficulties.  Use of this flag can cause some included
               graphics to fail, since the PostScript header macros
               from some software packages read portions of the input
               stream line by line, searching for a particular
               comment.  This option has been turned off by default
               because PostScript previewers and spoolers have been
               getting better.

          -l num
               The last page printed will be the first one numbered
               num Default is the last page in the document.  If the
               num is prefixed by an equals sign, then it (and any
               argument to the -p option) is treated as a sequence
               number, rather than a value to compare with char92
               count0 values.  Thus, using -l =9 will end with the
               ninth page of the document, no matter what the pages
               are actually numbered.

          -m   Specify manual feed for printer.

          -M   Turns off the automatic font generation facility.  If
               any fonts are missing, commands to generate the fonts
               are appended to the file missfont.log in the current
               directory; this file can then be executed and deleted
               to create the missing fonts.

          -n num
               At most num pages will be printed. Default is 100000.

          -N   Turns off structured comments; this might be necessary
               on some systems that try to interpret PostScript
               comments in weird ways, or on some PostScript printers.
               Old versions of TranScript in particular cannot handle
               modern Encapsulated PostScript.

          -o name
               The output will be sent to file name If no file name is
               given, the default name is file.ps where the .dvi file
               was called file.dvi; if this option isn't given, any
               default in the configuration file is used.

          -O offset
               Move the origin by a certain amount.  The offset is a
               comma-separated pair of dimensions, such as .1in,-.3cm
               (in the same syntax used in the papersize special).
               The origin of the page is shifted from the default
               position (of one inch down, one inch to the right from
               the upper left corner of the paper) by this amount.

          -p num
               The first page printed will be the first one numbered
               num. Default is the first page in the document.  If the
               num is prefixed by an equals sign, then it (and any
               argument to the -l option) is treated as a sequence
               number, rather than a value to compare with char92
               count0 values.  Thus, using -p =3 will start with the
               third page of the document, no matter what the pages
               are actually numbered.

          -pp pagelist
               A comma-separated list of pages and ranges (a-b) may be
               given, which will be interpreted as char92 count0
               values.  Pages not specified will not be printed.
               Multiple -pp options may be specified or all pages and
               page ranges can be specified with one -pp option.

          -P printername
               Sets up the output for the appropriate printer.  This
               is implemented by reading in config.printername, which
               can then set font paths and any other config.ps
               defaults for that printer only.  Note that config.ps is
               read before config.printername.

          -q   Run in quiet mode.  Don't chatter about pages
               converted, etc.; report nothing but errors to standard
               error.

          -r   Stack pages in reverse order.  Normally, page 1 will be
               printed first.

          -s   Causes the entire global output to be enclosed in a
               save/restore pair.  This causes the file to not be
               truly conformant, and is thus not recommended, but is
               useful if you are driving the printer directly and
               don't care too much about the portability of the
               output.

          -S num
               Set the maximum number of pages in each `section'.
               This option is most commonly used with the -i option;
               see that documentation above for more information.

          -t papertype
               This sets the paper type to papertype. The papertype
               should be defined in one the appropriate code to select
               it.  (Currently known types include letter, legal,
               ledger, a4, a3, ) You can also specify -t landscape,
               which rotates a document by 90 degrees.  To rotate a
               document whose size is not letter, you can use the -t
               option twice, once for the page size, and once for
               landscape.  The upper left corner of each page in the
               .dvi file is placed one inch from the left and one inch
               from the top.  Use of this option is highly dependent
               on the configuration file.  Note that executing the
               letter or a4 or other PostScript operators cause the
               document to be nonconforming and can cause it not to
               print on certain printers, so the paper size should not
               execute such an operator if at all possible.

          -T offset
               Set the paper size to the given pair of dimensions.
               This option takes its arguments in the same style as -
               O. It overrides any paper size special in the dvi file.

          -U   Disable a PostScript virtual memory saving optimization
               that stores the character metric information in the
               same string that is used to store the bitmap
               information.  This is only necessary when driving the
               Xerox 4045 PostScript interpreter.  It is caused by a
               bug in that interpreter that results in `garbage' on
               the bottom of each character.  Not recommended unless
               you must drive this printer.

          -x num
               Set the magnification ratio to num /1000. Overrides the
               magnification specified in the .dvi file.  Must be
               between 10 and 100000.

          -X num
               Set the horizontal resolution in dots per inch to num.

          -Y num
               Set the vertical resolution in dots per inch to num.

          -Z   Causes bitmapped fonts to be compressed before they are
               downloaded, thereby reducing the size of the PostScript
               font-downloading information.  Especially useful at
               high resolutions or when very large fonts are used.
               Will slow down printing somewhat, especially on early
               68000-based PostScript printers.

     NOTES
          PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems
          Incorporated.

     AUTHOR
          Tomas Rokicki <[e-mail]>; extended to virtual
          fonts by Don Knuth.