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From: smith@zeus.harvard.edu (Steven Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript
Subject: Some problems using PostScript within TeX: Part I
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Date: 21 Mar 91 22:18:26 GMT
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Try as I might, I cannot successfully incorporate PostScript output
from dvips within a TeX document (to be subsequently processed by
dvips).  Has anyone accomplished this feat?

The following three tests yield identical results at our site: only
the last paragraph and the page number are printed by our laser
printer, i.e., only text following the PostScript insertion.  The
PostScript file input.ps was generated by converting a one page DVI
file using dvips.

I tried some simple experiments within PostScript, such as deleting
the showpage command from dvips's /TeXDict macro within the file
input.ps, but this did not alter the outcome described above in any
of the three cases.

I would appreciate any help or comments on the solution of this problem.

Steven Smith


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Test One %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\input psfig

A page of PostScript output from dvips:
$$\psfig{figure=input.ps,width=2.125in}$$

The last paragraph on the page.

\bye
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Test Two %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
A page of PostScript output from dvips:
$$\vbox to2.75in{\hbox to 2.125in{%
\special{psfile="input.ps" hscale=25 vscale=25}\hss}\vss}$$

The last paragraph on the page.

\bye
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Test Three %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\input epsf

\epsfxsize=2.125in
\epsfysize=2.75in

A page of PostScript output from dvips:
$$\epsfbox{input.ps}$$

The last paragraph on the page.

\bye
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%