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From: tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
Subject: Re: DVI to Postscript???
Message-ID: <18790001@hplsla.HP.COM>
Date: 27 Feb 91 16:43:30 GMT
References: <1991Feb27.122440.17824@forwiss.uni-passau.de>
Organization: HP Lake Stevens, WA
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>hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) writes:

>>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. (?)

I'm a total (almost) novice at PasTeX, having gotten/seen it for the first
time about 10 days ago, but am successfully using DVIPrint from the
distribution with my LaserJet IIP.  I found some additional .pk font files,
and find it prints nicely at 300 dpi, as well as at 150 dpi with the 
fonts in the distribution.  I use the  "4" option for the DeskJet, NOT
the "3" option, which printed garbage.  I didn't fight success:  I didn't
bother to try to find out why the "3" screwed up.  It was something like
any white space at the front of a graphics 'row' was condensed in mode "3",
so pixels were shifted in bands.  "4" works fine, so far.

BTW, I'd appreciate pointers to fonts and font information.  How about
Helvetica-type fonts?  What all do I need to do to install them?  Are
the .tfm files as standardized as the .pk files?  Though I can print all
the doc files, I'm just starting to learn about TeX commands and defintions
and writing my own TeX-formatted documents, so try not to confuse me too
badly ;-) --  I'm only at about chapter 10 of Knuth's TeXbook.

Tom Bruhns
tomb%hplsla@hplabs.hp.com