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From: lwh@harpsichord.cis.ohio-state.edu (Loyde W Hales)
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Subject: Re: fig2ps dvi2ps apple laserwriter
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Date: 25 Sep 89 18:16:47 GMT
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In article <2989@tahoe.unr.edu> mikew@wheeler.UUCP (Mike Whitbeck) writes:
>Help! I would like to incorporate PostScript pictures such as
>made by fig + fig2ps in my TeX/LaTeX files. However when I send
>the PS files (eg draw a picture with fig save the file and make
>it PS with fig2ps - call the final file example.ps then print on
>an apple laser printer) to an apple laser printer  it just
>disappears!

It hasn't gone to the Forever land, you just can't see it.  See, dvi2ps and
your laser work in cahootz to clip (for the non-graphics types, remove
invisible parts of) the drawing.  That is to prevent you from, say, asking
for the drawing to be enlarged--making it so big that it screws fourteen
pages with parts of drawing and confuses TeX (doesn't know this stuff) to no
end.

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
print and use the snip-snip method of putting in the text, you'll have to be
more clear as to what you are doing...I'm not certain I see where you're
going wrong.

>What's missing (ok you wags- THERE IS PAPER IN THE TRAY).

Have you checked the toner :-)!!


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