Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!unmvax!ncar!tank!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Where can I FTP OzTeX from? Message-ID: <110300006@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 28 Sep 89 17:54:00 GMT References: <234232@<1989Sep25> Lines: 26 Nf-ID: #R:<1989Sep25:234232:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:110300006:000:1216 Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald Sep 28 12:54:00 1989 >+--------------- >| OzTeX can only print on a PostScript-compatible printer. There is currently >| no support for other types of printers. If you plan to use an Apple >+--------------- >grrrrrrrrrrrrr..... >Does there exist from *anyone* a program which will print DVI files on >ImageWriter LQ's, or (more preferably) a standard output driver that passes a >page to QuickDraw for printing/viewing? It might not be particularly pretty >to send it e.g. a bitmap of some kind, but at least it would use standard mac >print architecture... Alternatively, how about TFM files for various standard >Mac fonts and a direct DVI-to-QuickDraw converter? Getting a bitmap from a dvi file is easy: The Nelson Beebe printer drivers dor this for most dot matrix printers and my dvivga (a part of this family) do so too. So a Mac programmer should start from either dvivga.c or dvioki.c (for a real stupid Okidata printer - but look out for bugs in the actual bitmap drawing which are fixed in dvivga). His job would be simply to get insert a Mac dialog to get the file name and another one to get options (due to lack of the standard command line on Macs - ugh) and then tell Quickdraw to print the bitmap. Doug McDonald