Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!polya!Neon.Stanford.EDU!max From: max@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Max Hailperin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Previewing PostScript files, or dvi files. Message-ID: <11984@polya.Stanford.EDU> Date: 27 Sep 89 16:27:57 GMT References: <13763@uhnix1.uh.edu> <2748@decuac.DEC.COM> Sender: USENET News SystemReply-To: max@Neon.Stanford.EDU (Max Hailperin) Organization: Stanford University, Computer Science Dept. Lines: 30 In article <2748@decuac.DEC.COM> avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) writes: > >1. I believe that there is a bug in the dxpsview program, but I encourage >you to submit an SPR even though I have. The more the merrier :-). I see >the same problem though. If you edit the ps file and remove the letter >command it ends up working fine. I believe that anything that a PS >printer can support, the previewer should. This isn't a bug, it's a documented feature. There's even a documented way to override it, namely the "Use Fake Trays" item in the Options menu. Note, however, that (as I responded to the original poster) dvi2ps generates nonstandard PostScript in other more subtle ways that are likely to get you into trouble down the road. Rokicki's dvips 4.0 generates 100% standard PostScript, on the other hand, and has other advantages. In particular, I do use it succesfully with dxpsview. I would recommend switching to it. You can ftp it as pub/dvips40.tar.Z from labrea.stanford.edu. >2. I use xdvi for rpeviewing dvi files and it works great. Right, the only problem is with things like PostScript figures included in your TeX document. On the other hand, using dxpsview with a file generated using the default 300dpi bitmapped computer-modern fonts looks terrible on a 75dpi screen because dxpsview averages together 16 pixels to get each one. (Too bad there isn't a zoom mode, where you see all the pixels but bigger than life.). On yet a third hand, this problem goes away if you tell dvips to generate output for a 75dpi device and give it the appropriate fonts (which you already must have for xdvi, right?), and then just regenerate the output seperately for printing. Alternatively, you can use the PostScript outline fonts, which dvips supports.