Xref: utzoo comp.lang.postscript:2965 comp.text:5134
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!purdue!mailrus!um-math!kevin
From: kevin@math.lsa.umich.edu (Kevin Coombes)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.postscript,comp.text
Subject: Re: DVI to postscript converters...
Summary: yet another version of dvi2ps
Message-ID: <10024@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 22 Sep 89 16:34:46 GMT
References:  <4861@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> <426@laas.laas.fr> <1594@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl> <1595@ruuinf.cs.ruu.nl>
Reply-To: kevin@math.lsa.umich.edu (Kevin Coombes)
Followup-To: comp.lang.postscript, comp.text
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor
Lines: 30


Okay, here goes. I've spent the last few weeks working on merging several
versions of dvi2ps---namely, the three versions available at the
june.cs.washington.edu archive, by Larry Denenberg, Peter Damron, and
Jing-bai Wang. I also have Van Jacobson's version. I have a copy of
Tomas Rokicki's version 4.0 of dvips, but haven't yet had a chance to
look at it. The merge isn't yet complete, nor is it ready for general
consumption. Right now, it can use PK, GF, or PXL files (with the available
choices set at compile time), allows flexible organization of font
directories and supports environment variables to help with this. It
searches for fonts in a reasonable manner, and will use postscript to
rescale fonts if it can't find them in the right size. It supports
various specials, including psfig.

The point is: I'm willing to invest some more time in producing
version 3.0 (or whatever) of dvi2ps. I can see from this discussion that
there is some interest. What I'd like (by e-mail, and I'll post
summaries) is information on what other versions are available, how
to get them, and what features people most want to see. I have heard
of the following versions, but have not seen copies:
	dvitps	by Stephan von Bechtolsheim
	dvitops by James Clark
	dvi2ps  by Piet van Oostrum.
If anyone is interested in helping to produce a merged version of
dvi2ps, or in testing such a version if/when it becomes available,
I'd also appreciate hearing that.

Kevin Coombes