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From: dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek)
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Subject: Re: Integrating Rokicki's dvips with Cartlidge's multi.ps
Message-ID: <1991Mar13.094109.1@euler.claremont.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 91 17:41:09 GMT
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In article <4956@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, isaac@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Isaac Balbin) writes:
> dhosek@euler.claremont.edu (Don Hosek) writes:
 
>>In article <4946@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>, isaac@goanna.cs.rmit.OZ.AU (Isaac Balbin) writes:
>>> Aside from dirty scripts, has anyone cleanly integrated the two using 
>>> header files and hooks?
 
>>Why bother? dvidvi does the job much more cleanly and isn't PS-dependent.
 
> Perhaps because the reality is that idraw is currently the best thing (imho) for
> drawing pictures that is free, and as a result, one would like to scale 
> postscript pictures. Can dvidvi do that for you?

Wait, let me understand what you want to do: you're creating a
TeX document, dvipsing it then using this PS manipulator not only
to impose but to _scale_ the pages? Urp. You're losing a lot of
text quality doing that (even with PS fonts, I suspect). The
better approach would be to set the pages at the desired final
size (e.g., to fit within an A6 (did I get the direction right)
size) after imposition. dvips can handle scaling the graph for
you.

-dh

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