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From: marty@puppsr.Princeton.EDU (Marty Ryba)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Mac Postscript in LaTeX
Keywords: Aaaaaaaaugh!
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Date: 16 Apr 91 17:02:31 GMT
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It has been an exercise in frustration...I have a bunch of circuit diagrams
from a Mac that I'm trying to incorporate into my LaTeX doc on a Sun.  I've
tried macps, and I get postscript files that print fine by themselves,
but if I try to include them with dvips's psfile= construct, I get garbage!
Using the "save" option, I get an error from the printer; not having the
additional save-restore I get a mess for a figure (the caption prints fine).

I don't really want to use EPS conventions since I'd like to flexibly rescale
the drawings (most are a little big, and dvips includes vscale and hscale
options), plus BoundingBox computations are a little dicey. (I tried bbfig,
and the box clips the edges of some of the circuit elements.

The Mac uses LaserPrep5.0; I'm not really in a position to change it.
HELP!

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Marty Ryba                      | slave physics grad student
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