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From: ken@cs.rochester.edu (Ken Yap)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: fig2ps dvi2ps apple laserwriter
Keywords: help prolog
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Date: 25 Sep 89 18:35:25 GMT
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|I'd be willing to guess that your problem lies in allocating space.  Are you
|using the \special to include the figure in the text (LaTeX)?  If so, you
|need to allocate \vspace BEFORE the \special!  If you are planning to just

Well in the particular case of psfig, the insert is turned into a vbox
so TeX will allow sufficient space for it. But the advice about allocating
space holds true for some other \special mechanisms.

The other thing to look out for are the translation offsets that fig2ps
generates for standalone, centered figures. For insertion into documents,
this translation must be turned off.