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From: zwicky@pterodactyl.cis.ohio-state.edu (Elizabeth D. Zwicky)
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Subject: Re: want dvi to postscript translator that uses built-in fonts
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In article <4199@boulder.Colorado.EDU> buster@tramp.Colorado.EDU (Paul Buster) writes:

>I've installed TeX on a Unix machine and I currently use dvi2ps.  What
>I've been trying to make work is a psdvi program that came the TeX tape.
>psdvi includes .tfm files for the adobe fonts and the LN03R and LPS40
>printers have 29 fonts built-in, but my output looks like one point high
>characters (properly formatted).  I've tried messing with the magstep in
>my TeX source, the "correction factor" in the psdvi source, and the 
>postscript prolog file without getting the desired results.

I think you have missed the obvious. Your files are coming out in the
printer's default font (one-point Courier) because you are asking for
fonts it doesn't have built-in -- the CMR fonts. What you need to do
is use the Adobe fonts *in your document*. We handle this by building
a new fonts.tex and lfonts.tex and making a pstex and a pslatex that
have Adobe fonts (Times Roman, I'n afraid) instead of CMR. It's a simple
application of search-and-replace. You could also just ask for the fonts
in your document or in a header file if you didn't wish to build a whole
new TeX.

> There's also the difference in file size between
>psdvi and dvi2ps that concerns me.  

The difference in file size is caused by a complete difference in method
of construction. dvi2ps has to dump the font and the data; psdvi dumps
only the data. Some versions of dvi2ps dump the entire page as a bitmap,
even.

NOTE: There are several programs known as dvi2ps, and there may now
be several psdvis as well. The differences can be extremely significant.
I am assuming that you are using the psdvi written here by Clayton Elwell,
possibly with modifications; it certainly is an error that people get a lot
here. (The opposite error, in which  people use pslatex and then dvi2ps,
gives equally unreadable output; dvi2ps substitutes the font closest in
alphabetical order which is circle font. Fascinating, but illegible.)

	Elizabeth Zwicky
	zwicky@cis.ohio-state.edu
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