Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!samsung!think!ames!xanth!xanth.cs.odu.edu!scott From: scott@cs.odu.edu (Scott Yelich) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Degas > PS and DVI > PS Message-ID: Date: 3 Dec 89 17:43:59 GMT References: <8912010814.AA04390@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: news@cs.odu.edu Organization: Old Dominion University Computer Science Systems Group Lines: 17 In-reply-to: JOHNBARNES@ENH.NIST.GOV's message of 30 Nov 89 20:16:00 GMT > While we are on this subject I would like to respond to Dylan Yolles > on the matter of TeX DVI to Postscript conversion. With my imperfect > knowledge of the subject it appeasr that such a conversion would not > make sense. The font files used to generate the DVI document in TeX > do not correspond in any sense to those used in Postscript. It is > therefore unreasonable to expect that the layout of the document would be > preserved in such a conversion. Hmmm... Of course, I am talking about a sun system... but we use dvi2ps constantly.... -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scott D. Yelich scott@cs.odu.edu [128.82.8.1] After he pushed me off the cliff, he asked me, as I fell, ``Why'd you jump?'' -----------------------------------------------------------------------------