Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!ugle.unit.no!hanche From: hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: dvips (was: Re: tex dvi Previewer for Xwindows) Message-ID: Date: 12 Jan 91 16:34:08 GMT References: <139@dogmelb.dog.oz.au> Sender: news@ugle.unit.no Followup-To: comp.text.tex Organization: The Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Lines: 20 In-Reply-To: fischer@iesd.auc.dk's message of 7 Jan 91 18:27:56 GMT In article fischer@iesd.auc.dk (Lars P. Fischer) writes: >>>>> On 7 Jan 91 15:58:59 GMT, hanche@imf.unit.no (Harald Hanche-Olsen) said: Harald> Hmmm, yes, it has lots of good features, but when I last tried it the Harald> printer spent 2-3 times at much time per page with dvips output than Harald> with dvialw output. In my experience, dvips is a lot faster than just about any other dvi->ps program I have tried, *especially* for large output. [...] Also, it is important to set the amount of RAM in the printer correctly in the setup.ps file. I presume you mean config.ps. I took your advice and upgraded to dvips 5.41 at the same time, and dvips now performs quite well, thank you very much. Time to convert to dvips I figure. - Harald