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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: dvips (was: Re: tex dvi Previewer for Xwindows)
Message-ID: <1991Jan8.220716.1155@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Jan 91 22:07:16 GMT
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>>  Also, dvips541 by Tom Rokicki is the best dvi2ps program I have *EVER*

>Hmmm, yes, it has lots of good features, but when I last tried it the
>printer spent 2-3 times at much time per page with dvips output than

If you use -Z, the compressed fonts, then the printer will take a little
longer to process each page.  Also, note that different versions used
different methods to draw rules, and this may impact the performance.  The
pending 5.42 (this weekend?) should work relatively quickly on any
PostScript device.

(The reason that rules are slower with dvips than with other dvi to PS
drivers is because of alignment problems between characters and rules if
rules are drawn with fill instead of image . . .)

-tom