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From: naparst@cartan.Berkeley.EDU (Harold Naparst)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: dvi2ps and Psfig/TeX
Message-ID: <1489@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 9 Jan 88 09:55:44 GMT
References: <701@entropy.ms.washington.edu>
Reply-To: naparst@cartan.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Harold Naparst)
Organization: Math Dept. UCB
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In article <701@entropy.ms.washington.edu> hubert@entropy.ms.washington.edu (Steve Hubert) writes:
>I'm trying to get Trevor Darrell's Psfig/TeX macros to work with the
>dvi2ps which Chris Torek has available via anonymous ftp.  Psfig is a
>macro package which facilitates the inclusion of PostScript code into
>TeX documents.  It uses the \special command.  However, it is designed
>to work with ArborText's dvips which I don't have.  Has anyone modified
>either Psfig or dvi2ps so that they will work well together?
>Alternatively, does anyone have another suggestion?  Thanks.

Everyone seems to be asking about this, so I'll follow-up rather than reply.
I posted a similar question a couple of months ago.  I had the same problem.
There are a lot of dvi2ps processors, each with their own method of including
postscript.  There is only one dvi2ps that psfig works with.  So people are
starting to hack psfig to work with their dvi2ps, or hack dvi2ps to work
with psfig, or both.  I don't know where we got ours from, but now we have
a combination that works OK, except it deletes everything on the page that
precedes the figure.  You get around this by placing the figure on a separate
page with \begin{figure}[p].

I don't really feel like mailing the whole thing to everyone in the world,
especially since it doesn't seem to be working well and it is over 1 Mbyte.

I have worked on this stuff for a couple of months now, and if you want my
advice (and I am serious), buy some scissors and glue.
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