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From: shor@sphinx.UUCP (Melinda Shore)
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Subject: Re: TeX support for Xerox 9700 printers
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Date: Wed, 13-May-87 22:03:31 EDT
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In article <8705132120.AA19776@brillig.umd.edu> Kent_Wada@UBC.MAILNET writes:
>In an effort to save ourselves from reinventing the wheel, we would
>be very interested in hearing from anyone who may be using TeX on a
>Xerox 9700-class printer.

We purchased DVIXER from ArborText, and had some real problems with
it.  We're running it under MVS, which is certainly the source of the
problem, since the fellow who wrote it doesn't have access to an MVS
system (really).  It's a pretty dumb program, and not supported by the
staff at ArborText.  They know nothing about it, and refer all
questions to the author.  They're distributing the cm, am, and latex
fonts.  I managed to find a program that converts pxl fonts to 9700
format and we will be converting the AMS fonts as well.

So, we're going to be trying out the driver produced at Texas A&M.
It supports real font conversion and downloading for fonts not on
the printer, the use of Mergenthaler fonts, and imposition printing.
They're talking about adding support for inclusion of EPIC graphics
and other goodies.  If it's as good as their Waterloo Script -> 9700
driver we'll probably chuck DVIXER.

The font conversion utility from Delaware is in the public domain.
It's written in C and expects to run under Unix, but is probably
easy to convert for your favorite OS.  If there's sufficient interest,
I'll post it.
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Melinda Shore                               ..!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!shor
University of Chicago Computation Center         shor@sphinx.uchicago.edu