Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!crackers!m2c!umvlsi!dime!dime.cs.umass.edu!moss From: moss@cs.umass.edu (Eliot Moss) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: using dvips with \special Message-ID: Date: 29 Jan 91 14:08:35 GMT References: <4197@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu Reply-To: moss@cs.umass.edu Organization: Dept of Comp and Info Sci, Univ of Mass (Amherst) Lines: 14 In-reply-to: meadows@cslvax.weeg.uiowa.edu's message of 28 Jan 91 23:15:23 GMT Rather than using \special commands directly, may I suggest you use a package such as psfig? It will scan the PostScript for bounding box information, allow you to supply it in the \psfig command, supports scaling, etc. Think of psfig as high level language and \special as assembly and you get the idea. psfig works very nicely with Rokicki's dvips, too. Both are available on labrea.stanford.edu. -- 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, 545-1249 (fax); Moss@cs.umass.edu