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From: rokicki@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Tomas G. Rokicki)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: TopDraw
Message-ID: <1990Mar3.032821.26551@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 3 Mar 90 03:28:21 GMT
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University
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> >We have a user who generates '.dvi' files from Latex.
> >Then he uses dvips to obtain '.ps' files.  When these
> >files are included in either Draw or TopDraw the

> [Draw's EPSF] handling code apparently did (does?) not set gray to black.

Argghhhhh!  I'd think NeXT applications would be able to get this
one right.

You can `fix' it `permanently' by adding the appropriate initialization
to the definition of `@start' in /usr/lib/tex/ps/tex.ps . . .

Maybe someday someone will read the EPSF specs.  I guess that's too
much to ask of software developers these days, though.