Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!lethe!yunexus!ists!helios.physics.utoronto.ca!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!samsung!ernie.viewlogic.com!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!moss From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript Subject: Re: looking for dvi-to-postscript converter Message-ID: Date: 8 Jan 91 13:47:45 GMT References: <1991Jan6.145603.1781@dm.unibo.it> <1420@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 17 In-reply-to: pswanson@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu's message of 7 Jan 91 22:45:15 GMT >>>>> On 7 Jan 91 22:45:15 GMT, pswanson@umvlsi.ecs.umass.edu (Paul Swanson) said: Paul> Just to futher mix things up, why would anyone use psfig with dvips in Paul> the first place? What can psfig do that can't be done with the psfile Paul> specials and/or the \epsffile macro? Well I find the psfig macros more convenient than epsffile -- you get more options, they're easier to state, etc. Of course it can all be done with the specials, and all psfig does is help generate the specials you want. -- J. Eliot B. Moss, Assistant Professor Department of Computer and Information Science Lederle Graduate Research Center University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA 01003 (413) 545-4206; Moss@cs.umass.edu