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From: wwm@pmsmam.uucp (Bill Meahan)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: dvips (5.37) vs dvi2ps (3.1) ?
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Date: 17 Sep 90 13:28:23 GMT
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I have previously picked up and installed dvi2ps version 3.1 and am generally
happy with it.  However, I recently was given a copy of dvips version 5.37.

Two questions:

	1) Are the *.sty and *.tfm files that come with dvips 5.37 compatible
	   with the ones that came with dvi2ps?

	2) There are additonal [font].tfm files that came with dvips that did
	   not appear with dvi2ps.  These have the full PostScript name of		   the font and are of considerably different lengths.  Sadly, my
	   SYSV-based system only supports 14-character file names and so
	   truncates the names.  What are these files used for and do I need
	   to install them for most purposes?

A more general question:  What does dvips do that dvi2ps doesn't?

Thanks for your help!
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