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From: sbs@iesd.dk (Sten Baek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.text
Subject: Re: DOSTEX HELP! Please
Summary: another problem with the dvieps printer-driver
Message-ID: <2233@iesd.dk>
Date: 14 Jul 89 13:41:07 GMT
References: <7685@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Dept. of Comp. Sci., Aalborg University, Denmark
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In article <7685@cs.Buffalo.EDU> Leung Lee writes:
>
>Hi,
>
>I was digging up some old tex discussion news articles, hoping they
>can help solve my problems, ....

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> And also, the dvieps printer driver does not work looking for certain
>fonts.  As far as I know the fonts are all there, perhaps it wants a
>different set, but no suffixes are reported so I wouldn't know which,
>I have pk and tfm fonts.
>
>Thanks!
>
>Leung

I have also experienced another problem with the dvieps printer
driver. When I print a document on my 9-pin Star LC-10 printer
everything seems fine while it is printing the first few lines, but
then it suddenly stops printing in graphics-mode and displays garbage
all over the page, and then it suddenly returns to graphics-mode and
continues printing the document. This goes on for a while depending on
the document.

It looks to me as if dvieps doesn't specify the correct number of data
to the printer's graphics command, but I haven't looked into it enough
to be sure about it. Has anyone out there experienced the same thing
or is it just me that doesn't know how to use dvieps correctly?

I have recently retrieved dvieps as a part of the DosTeX archive from
Simtel20, and it seems that it's an experimental version, so maybe
that is the reason.

Anyway, I would like to hear if anyone has a solution to my
dvieps-problem, or perhaps if someone has pointers to other DVI
printer drivers that support 240 dpi (9-pin matrix).

Thanks in advance

Sten B{\ae}k S{\o}rensen
sbs@iesd.dk
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science
Aalborg University
Denmark