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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: dvips 4.0
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Date: 15 Sep 89 03:55:09 GMT
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ANNOUNCING RELEASE of dvips version 4.0, with the following features:

	- `Correct' memory budgeting; no longer have to break up
		long documents by hand
	- Bitmap font compression on output greatly reduces output
		file size, especially at typesetter resolution
	- Fast and compact page code reduces size of output file
	- Encapsulated PostScript graphics support
	- Non-encapsulated PostScript graphics support
	- PostScript font support, with correct use of ligatures
		and kerns and TeX character positions.
	- Brand new afm2tfm source provided
	- Automatic generation of missing fonts through METAFONT
		(or can be modified to convert gf->pk as needed)
	- Conformant PostScript output
	- Automatic spooling through lpr or other process
	- Support for multiple printers with different characteristics
	- Literal PostScript specials and macros
	- Generation of collated as well as uncollated copies
	- Reversal of pages on demand
	- Compact, modular source code for easy modifications
	- Freely redistributable
	- Easy installation
	- psfig and tpic support

The most important new feature is the bitmap compression feature; you
can now generate files for high-resolution typesetters using standard
TeX bitmapped fonts without generating impossibly large output files.

This code is available from labrea.stanford.edu in ~pub/dvips40.tar.Z.