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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: Where can I FTP OzTeX from?
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Date: 28 Sep 89 17:54:00 GMT
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>+---------------
>| 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