Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!maytag!aries5!giguere
From: giguere@aries5.uucp (Eric Giguere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Tools for writing manuals...
Message-ID: <300@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 11 Jul 89 22:23:07 GMT
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In article <19497@louie.udel.EDU> MFM1%LEHIGH.BITNET@ibm1.cc.lehigh.edu (mark masters) writes:
>
>Just a quick question about AmigaTex... does it use postscript laser
>printers?

TeX/LaTeX generate what are called DVI (DeVice Independent) files.  To 
print these files requires a separate printer driver to convert from DVI
format to whatever your printer accepts.  AmigaTeX has a full set of printer
drivers available for most of the commonly-used 9- and 24-pin dot matrix
printers, for HP LaserJets and DeskJets and for postcript printers.  (The
drivers are all purchased separately.)  The nice thing about this is that
you can print drafts on your el cheapo printer at home and take the DVI
file to your local TeX shop and have them print it out on their 1200 dpi
typesetter....

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