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From: langdon@lll-lcc.aRpA (Bruce Langdon)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: dvi2ps and Psfig/TeX
Message-ID: <1433@lll-lcc.aRpA>
Date: 12 Jan 88 05:01:34 GMT
References: <701@entropy.ms.washington.edu> <1489@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: Lawrence Livermore Labs, Livermore Ca
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Summary: or you could buy ArborText's dvips, depending on how much
	 your time is worth.

In article <1489@cartan.Berkeley.EDU>, naparst@cartan.Berkeley.EDU (Harold Naparst) writes:
> 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 ....  However, it is designed to work with ArborText's dvips ...
> 
> There are a lot of dvi2ps processors, each with their own method of including
> postscript.  There is only one dvi2ps that psfig works with.  
>  ... now we have a combination that works OK, except it deletes everything
> on the page that precedes the figure.
> 
> 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.

If your bureaucrats value your time, you may be able to BUY ArborText's
dvips, which does work and includes instructive example files. We did this
in 1986; it's cheaper now I think. Then, if a standard develops around
dvi2ps \special and you don't have a dvips site license by then, you will
have an additional option.
I consume and write netware too, but...
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