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