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From: flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn)
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Subject: Re: Problem with dvips3.6 on NeXT.
Summary: use EPSF
Message-ID: <1990Jun12.121725.14129@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 90 12:17:25 GMT
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In article <691@toaster.SFSU.EDU> hodges@toaster.SFSU.EDU (John Hodges) writes:
>In article <118400013@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> gsg0384@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>
>>I noticed that Tom Rokicki's "dvips 3.6" program on NeXT does not handle 
>>"\special{psfile=somefile.eps hscale=....}
>>command at all. [...]
>
>I have had the same problem for many months. [...]
>
>  Well Tom, when are you
>going to fix this so that we can put real pictures into our documents.
>I ended up having to cut-and-paste Mac pictures into that manual, thank
>you very much.  So much for living in the 20th century!

I recently completed a 216-page doctoral dissertation with 62 figures,
all composed on the NeXT using TeX, Draw, and Rokicki's dvips.
Things go a lot smoother if you use the epsf macros.  Instead of using
\special{psfile=foo.eps hscale=...}, I put ALL of my figures into
Draw (including line-drawings and gray-scale PostScript images), scaled
them to taste, saved as EPS, and use \epsffile{foo.eps} in the LaTeX
document.

In addition, I had to turn off `structured comments' when I printed
the document on our LaserWriter NT (use dvips -N).

IMHO, the NeXT TeX suite is the best-integrated quasi-free TeX 
distribution I've ever used (and I've used quite a few).

TTFN--Pat
--
Patrick Flynn, CS, Michigan State University, flynn@cps.msu.edu
(Future Fighting Irishman)