Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!uhccux!lee From: lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Greg Lee) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: DVI to postscript converters... Message-ID: <4861@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 15 Sep 89 03:04:09 GMT References: Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 46 From article , by spqr@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Sebastian Rahtz): " " Is there a newer version of a DVI to Postscript converter out there " anywhere? Yes. A version of dvi2ps by Piet van Oostrum has some useful new features. I will have yet another version soon -- I'm working out what I hope are the last few bugs. Following is an excerpt from the README of van Oostrum's version, and after that some notes on getting it by ftp. Greg, lee@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu --------- Notes by Piet van Oostrum: I added support for BSD4.1 and changed the dvi2ps program to read PK files rather than PXL files (the files are generated by the Metafont Utilities). I also added code to calculate VM usage. The program does not download fonts if the VM is low. In that case individual bitmaps are loaded on a character basis and removed immediately after printing. I also restructured the DVI.PS file to improve the VM usage. To use the VM limiting feature compile with -DBUDGET=estimated VM value in bytes. To use builtin fonts compile with -DBUILTIN. You can then define the fonts e.g. with \font\palatino=p-rom at 12pt See the file palatino.sty for equivalent latex style options. This version allows you to put the PXL or PK files in a different directory than the tfm files. In that case if you use the TEXFONTS environment variable, you must specify both directories in it. Note added by Matt Crawford: A patch sent by Piet van Oostrum on 14 Sep 1987 has been applied to dvi2ps.c. ---------- listing of directory pub on oddjob.uchicago.edu: Connected to oddjob.uchicago.edu. 220 oddjob FTP server (Version 4.172 Fri Dec 2 14:11:17 CST 1988) ready. ... -rw-r--r-- 1 matt wheel 130781 Jun 29 12:05 dist.2.0.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 matt wheel 95621 Sep 14 1987 dvi2ps.pk.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 matt wheel 501760 Jan 5 1988 elxsi-rpc.tar ...