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Subject: Figures and dvips40. Problems
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Date: 23 Oct 89 19:08:20 GMT
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Reply-To: vlo@taipei.Princeton.EDU (John Vlontzos)
Organization: Princeton University
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I hope problems like this will be solved once and for all someday.
Ok. here is the problem:

I got dvips40 working for plain text files. However, there are
some incompatibilities with psfig.
The first is simple to fix. Psfig puts postscript text into the 
file using a \special{pstext= ..} while dvips expects \special{" ...}
I changed that in  psfig.tex

The second is that it simply refuses to print figures. I keep
getting a diagnostic "nocurrentpoint offending command currentpoint".
It is clear that the problem is somewhere in the startTeXfig definition
dvips uses. Before I fixed problem one (above) the figure would be printed
but in the wrong position. After I fixed it, I get the above diagnostic
(by the way I'm using lprep68.pro with the command
"dvips -h lprep68.pro file", printing on an imagen with ultrascript)

Can anybody help??

Thanks in advance
John Vlontzos
Princeton