Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!fauern!forwiss.uni-passau.de!unipas!hessmann From: hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications Subject: Re: DVI to Postscript??? Keywords: TeX DVI to Postscript converter needed wanted Message-ID: <1991Feb27.122440.17824@forwiss.uni-passau.de> Date: 27 Feb 91 12:24:40 GMT References: Sender: usenet@forwiss.uni-passau.de (USENET News System) Organization: University of Passau, Germany Lines: 37 Nntp-Posting-Host: unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de In article anderson@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu writes: >Anyone know where I can get a utility to convert the DVI files generated with >PasTeX (from abcfd20.larc.nasa.gov) to a Postscript file I could dump to a >LaserWriter? On UNIX, you can use 'dvips'. It is PD. Available via ftp. May be, someone will port it to the AMIGA. >BTW: How does one dup an ASCII file (ie: Postscript code file) directly to >the printer port on a Mac? There's no command line to use COPY or file >redirection like in Unix/Amiga/PC???? With Word 4.0, load a postscript file, select it and select in print formats (with option shift ..) postscript. Now print the text. >BTW2: Perhaps I should just ask if anyone has a DVI to HPLaserjet converter >because that's what most of the PC's are connected to in my immediate vi- >cinity and the HPIII's would probably have the same quality output as >a LaserWriter (???) and I imagine COPYing a straight HPGL file to the printer >port on an IBM is much easier than on a Mac. I'm not sure. May be, the printer driver of PasTeX will work also for HPLaserjet in the DeskJet (no opt) modus. (?) >BTW3: I don't really have a preference as to whether it's a Unix executable >or Amiga executable I just need some way to do either of the above. > >Thanks, >-Beej Georg. -- hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de hessmann@unipas.uucp