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From: laser-lovers@uw-beaver
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Subject: dvi2ps
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Date: Wed, 24-Jul-85 14:34:53 EDT
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From: Bruce Baker <bwb@textset>


       "The context is that dvi2ps is a quick
        and dirty way to get TeX output on a LaserWriter -- it downloads all
        the TeX fonts and does not use any of the resident ones.  Horrible, I know,
        but pleasingly effective (3 pages/minute on long documents)."

By way of contrast to the public domain "dvi2ps" program, Textset's 
DVILASER/PS produces average printed pages at the rate of 20 seconds
per page on an Apple LaserWriter.

Processing TeX pages through DVILASER/PS on the host operating system
averages approximately twice as fast as the best optimized version of TeX
for a given operating system, except on the IBM PC AT where it runs 
just slightly faster than TeX.

The only real bottleneck is PostScript processing on the printer itself. 
Part of the speed of DVILASER/PS is accomplished by "permanently" downloading
a set of most commonly used fonts as designated by the user.

DVILASER/PS is now installed on Sun/Unix, Apollo/Aegis, VAX/VMS, and IBM
PC AT/MSDOS with excellent performance on all systems.

DVILASER/PS includes spooler support, has no known limitations on the number
of pages in a document, includes support for integrating PostScript graphics
in TeX documents, includes support for both downloaded and resident LaserWriter
fonts, allows designation of multiple xy origins on landscape or portrait pages,
supports typesetting at any designated angle from the horizontal, includes
support for an extended version of LaTeX that directly emits PostScript code
enhancing LaTeX's picture environment capabilities, etc.

We hope to have benchmarks available relatively soon for two other PostScript
printers---the QMS Lasergrafix 1200A and the Apollo DOMAIN/LASER-26.

          Bruce Baker
          Textset, Inc.
          (313) 996-3566

[[Editor's note---parts of this message seem to come a little closer
than I'd like to sounding like a marketing fact sheet, but I'm
inclined to pass the message through because it may be of interest to
readers of the list.  I hope that Textset will feel free to speak up
in the future when they can help the rest of us with technical issues
associated with the LaserWriter!  And as a note to Bruce, I can't
figure out what your uucp path might be, based on the header
information.  Would you please send me a path relative to some well
known uucp node, such as ihnp4?			--Rick ]]