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From: Erik-jan.Vens@samba.acs.unc.edu (Erik-jan Vens)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: is there a Postscript to dvi?
Keywords: TeX Postscript GNU
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Date: 21 Nov 90 14:17:09 GMT
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As far as I know (and mostly, yes, I do know) a tool such as you request
does not exist.

But, for us poor people, there is an el cheapo solution. Get
GhostScript. This is the GNU implementation of Postscript.  You can find
it on a lot of FTP addresses in the GNU directory. E.g. on
prep.ai.mit.edu, which is home-of-gnu.

The program works good, *BUT* there is a big *BUT*! If you use
GhostScript because you're poor, chances are good, you cannot afford to
buy expensive fonts. So you'll have to use the el cheapo/for free fonts
that come with the package. This makes the output much less than
attractive, but sometimes when you have to choose between ugly prints and
no print at all, sometimes, you might want to decide in favour of
printing. And this is where GhostScript comes in handy.

Erik-Jan. Vens@Rug.NL
        | erikjan@icce.rug.nl