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From: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: dvi2ps/tex.ps
Message-ID: <1302@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Date: 28 Apr 89 09:30:48 GMT
References: <818@apctrc.UUCP>
Sender: piet@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl
Reply-To: piet@cs.ruu.nl (Piet van Oostrum)
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht, Holland
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In-reply-to: zjat02@apctrc.trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley)

In article <818@apctrc.UUCP>, zjat02@apctrc (Jon A. Tankersley) writes:
 `I ran into some problems with dvi2ps (March '89 and the previous version).
 `Seems that certain documents (proc.sty is all I've seen so far) can cause
 `some PostScript errors.  I think that the real bug is in dvi2ps, but the
 `fix seems to not interfere with other documents.  Case occurred when
 `a string of text started in the upper left-hand corner of the page.
 `A
 `    -41 r(moveto) (string) s(how)  was failing.
 `Doing a
 `    -41 0 p[moveto] (string) s(how) worked.
 `
My version of dvi2ps initializes the position at the beginning of a page to
some impossible value, so it always starts with an absolute movement.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
Padualaan 14, P.O. Box 80.089, 3508 TB Utrecht, The Netherlands
Telephone: +31-30-531806. piet@cs.ruu.nl (mcvax!hp4nl!ruuinf!piet)