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From: jbw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jingbai  Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: TeX gf,pk,pxl files
Keywords: TeX,gf,pk,pxl
Message-ID: <19741@unix.cis.pitt.edu>
Date: 26 Sep 89 19:15:10 GMT
References: <251D440F.1E2C@marob.masa.com>
Reply-To: jbw@unix.cis.pitt.edu (Jingbai  Wang)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Services
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In article <251D440F.1E2C@marob.masa.com> samperi@marob.masa.com (Dominick Samperi) writes:
>The responses to my gf,pk,pxl posting unanymously suggested that the
>compressed pk font files should be used. The nicest
>driver that we use is dvi2ps (other drivers are rarely used), since
>it handles psfig, generates transportable PostScript output, has
>convenient options, etc. (a similar program, dvips, does not seem
>to handle psfig figures). Unfortunately, dvi2ps will handle gf or pxl
>font files, but NOT pk format fonts. I have version 2.11 of dvi2ps. Is
>there a version that will handle pk fonts? If not, could someone give
>a few pointers on how pk support could be added?


I am already very tired of advertising it. There is a version of dvi2ps
that can be ftped from june.cs.washington.edu that can handle PK format,
psfig nad much much more. It is officially under ~/tex in name of w_dvi2ps
(since my last name is Wang), but I always wonder why the new version is
left outside in ~/tmp. Thus, if you do ftp, get the one from ~/tmp under
the name of dvi2ps.tar.Z. The on-line help of dvi2ps and TeX/LaTeX is
built in this dvi2ps.

JB Wang