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From: rokicki@polya.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: dvips (version 34 from cornell) barfs on certain \special keywords
Message-ID: <11247@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 89 19:01:42 GMT
References: <23@looney.twinsun.com>
Sender: Tomas G. Rokicki <rokicki@Polya.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <23@looney.twinsun.com>, dinh@burns.twinsun.com writes:
> This version of dvips does not seem to handle the \special keywords
> "hscale" and "vscale" which are used to load in a postscript file.

A few notes.  First of all, 3.4 is a beta version, and bug reports
should go to me, not to public distribution.  The one you mention
will be fixed; how has not been specified.  (Specifically, some
dvi2ps programs use hscale=0.34 (a fraction); some use hscale=34
(a fraction times 100 rounded to an integer).  I've got to figure
out a convenient way to select between the two interpretations.)

The program should be released for general consumption by TUG.

-tom