Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!uhnix1!csunb!rr From: rr@csunb.cs.uh.edu (Ravindran Ramachandran) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Previewing PostScript files, or dvi files. Summary: Solution, using dvi2ps. Message-ID: <14040@uhnix1.uh.edu> Date: 30 Sep 89 18:46:38 GMT References: <13763@uhnix1.uh.edu> <2748@decuac.DEC.COM> <11984@polya.Stanford.EDU> <8955@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> Sender: nntppost@uhnix1.uh.edu Reply-To: rr@cs.uh.edu (Ravindran Ramachandran) Organization: University of Houston Lines: 61 In article <8955@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu> riley@tcgould.tn.cornell.edu (Daniel S. Riley) writes: >In article <11984@polya.Stanford.EDU> max@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Max Hailperin) writes: >>This isn't a bug, it's a documented feature. There's even a documented >>way to override it, namely the "Use Fake Trays" item in the Options menu. > >I wrote a reply that said essentially the same thing, but, just before >sending it off, I fired up dxpsview and tested it out. I couldn't get >it to work. With "Use Fake Trays" enabled, I could not get dxpsview to >accept any sort of tray command. So, maybe this is a bug? > I got a couple of replies to my original message that mentioned to use the "Fake Trays" option. I tried all combinations of this, but it does not work. So the solutions are, (1) DVI Previewers: (a) xdvi -- you should be able to anonymously ftp it from expo.lcs.mit.edu or prep.ai.mit.edu. I still haven't looked at it. (b) texx2: By Dirk Grunwald. Available in labrea.stanford.edu, in /pub. The only problem with it is that it uses `imake' and `ximake', which according to the author is a standard with X11 software - but DEC does not provide this. (2) Using PostScript Previewer (dxpsview): Convert dvi file to ps using: (a) dvips: Available in labrea.stanford.edu. Have not tried it. (b) dvi2ps: Modify the tex.ps file that dvi2ps uses to include in the header, adding in the following lines anywhere after the `TeXDict begin': % Define command letter if undefined -Ravi. /letter where { %ifelse pop }{ %else /letter {} def } ifelse % End of definition to be included. Well, that takes care of that. I think I had previously mentioned to some to check for these software on score.stanford.edu; I would like to restate that as to check in labrea.stanford.edu, in /pub and /pub/tex. Bear with me, I have another posting in the wings about some oddities of the FORTRAN compiler for the MIPS machines. --Ravi- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Ravindran Ramachandran Internet : rr@cs.uh.edu | System Administrator : ramachandran@uh.edu | TCSUH, 617 SR1 CSNET : rr@houston.edu | University of Houston BITNET : coschmd@uhvax1.bitnet | 4800, Calhoun | Houston, TX - 77204. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Disclaimer : The opinions mentioned here are purely my own (most of the time); however, sometimes my opinions are not THAT pure.