Re: How can I instruct dvips to use outline fonts instead of theCM ones?
Or if you just want to do it for one file, not as the default for the full installation, just use the following flag to dvips: dvips -Ppdf myfile.dvi or maybe (depending on what fonts you use) dvips -Ppdf -G0 myfile.dvi /Mats Thomas Esser wrote: Could anybody tell me how to instruct dvips to use bluesky fonts instead of the standard Computer Modern fonts? The following works with standard teTeX-1.0. I don't know if this is different in RedHat's version... cd `kpsewhich -expand-var='$TEXMFMAIN'`/dvips/config vi updmap # or use a different editor # change type1_default=false - type1_default=true ./updmap That's it. updmap is described in TETEXDOC, just texdoc TETEXDOC Thomas -- = Mats Bengtsson Signal Processing Signals, Sensors and Systems Royal Institute of Technology SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM Sweden Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463 Fax: (+46) 8 790 7260 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~mabe =
Re: new dvips
Kalyan Mukherjea wrote: Hi Dmitri, Fromwhere did you download the files? Thomas had sent me the url: http://www.dbs.uni-hannover.de/~te/dvips5.92a/ On that page there are 3 links: to Thomas's web page (Parent directory) a dvips*.tar.gz file which contains the necessary run time files; and _dvips_ which is a binary compiled under SuSE linux 7.2. I downloaded the tar.gz file --- no hassle. But when I click on the link _dvips_ my netscape opens a new page which fills up with nonsense symbols typical of a binary file. I cannot get the binary file to download as a file. I am sure I am doing something very silly but what should I do? Maybe Dmitri could send me the url he went to. Apparently, the web server at that place doesn't realize that the file is a binary file and sets the incorrect MIME type text/plain. However, it should be possible to download it if you right click on the link and choose Save link target as /Mats
Re: A quick question
I'm not sure how much the answer below helped. Bey default, dvips is configured to send the resulting PS file directly to the printer using the command lpr. If you want a Postscript file, use 'dvips -o file.ps file.dvi'. If you always want this behaviour, you can run texconfig as root and change the default dvips output. /Mats Michael Hallgren wrote: Hi, Hi, dear: I am a fresh in tex, I had a problem with my dvips, when I try to run dvips it gave me this: This is dvips(k) 5.86 Copyright 1999 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2002.10.04:1658' - |lpr texc.prosh: lpr: not found special.pro. Means: can't find printer. You're attempting to print or save to file? Cheers mh Can you tell me what is wrong? Thanks. Regards, Shutian -- = Mats Bengtsson Signal Processing Signals, Sensors and Systems Royal Institute of Technology SE-100 44 STOCKHOLM Sweden Phone: (+46) 8 790 8463 Fax: (+46) 8 790 7260 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.s3.kth.se/~matsb =
Re: inverting ps/pdf
... or can one convert ps to pdf? Xpdf has a pdftops utility but not vice-versa. Certainly, if you have Ghostscript installed on your computer you could use the ps2pdf program. If you want it to handle vector fonts (Type1 fonts) correctly, make sure you have a Ghostscript version not older than 6.0. /Mats
Re: Avoiding dvi files
To be truthful, I'd not even thought of pdf(la)tex. Yes, this may be a reasonable solution...expect that it produces pdf, not ps, files. I'm not sure, but I think that to print pdf files to my postscript printer they first would need to be converted to ps. I'm really not all that Have your sysadmin install something like magicfilter or apsfilter which can automagically detect .dvi or .pdf and do the Right Thing(tm) to generate postscript output. On my Debian installation at home, this works excellently out of the box. However, for .dvi files it doesn't work for documents with included graphics since the printer filter runs dvips in some tmp or spool directory where it doesn't find the .eps files. /Mats
More texdoc requests
In addition to the feature requests for texdoc, I have one more request. Sometimes you want to printout some package documentation on paper. I'd like to see a texdoc option that invokes dvips on .dvi files to generate a postscript file, either storing it on file or sending it directly to a printer (or one option for each of these two possibilities). Often, you may just want to print the first pages with the manual and the not the last pages with the annotated source code of the package. This can easily be handled by opening a postscript version of the document in gv/ghostview and selecting only the interesting pages. In the meantime, I'll have to live with an alias for dvips `kpsewhich --format='TeX system documentation' packagename.dvi` Regards /Mats
Re: Missing characters
I have had better luck using pdftex than using tex and dvips. AFAIK the only drawback is that if you want to include eps graphics, you have to convert them to pdf or png first. And, you can't use psfrag or pstricks or ... /Mats
Re: pdf[la]tex problems with config
Besides, kpsewhich pdftex.cfg yields nothing, while: Try kpsewhich -progname=pdftex pdftex.cfg. In my teTeX 1.07 installation, kpsewhich won't find pdftex.cfg unless you specify the program name. Use the environment variable KPATHSEA_DEBUG to debug why pdftex doesn't find the file. Run info '(kpathsea)Debugging' to learn more. /Mats
Re: PS viewers.
Hello, Thanks very much for all the feedback I got on PS viewers. In fact, only a week ago, I downloaded gv 3..5.8, managed to compile it and it worked fine. I then had to upgrade my gs5.50 to gs6.50 to handle computer modern type 1 fonts. Now, gv no longer works. It gives Postscript interpreter failed on main page. That's weird. I just tried the same gv 3.5.8 with both gs5.50 and gs6.50 and it works without any problems. Are you sure that you didn't compile in any full paths to gs in the gv binary? In State-Ghostscript options ..., it should just say Interpreter: gs /Mats
Re: forward/inverse search
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 10:11:20PM +0200, Joost Kremers wrote:
hi all,
i used to write my documents on win95 with miktex and winedt. miktex
has the ability to put source specials in the dvi file, and yap
(miktex's dvi previewer) and winedt are fully equipped to make use of
this, so that you can perform forward and inverse searches on the
latex and dvi files.
I don't understand what you're saying. You seem to be talking about
editing, in which case has nothing to do with TeX/LaTeX or teTeX.
The idea is that you could insert \special{...} commands that
makes it possible to click in xdvi which points out the
corresponding latex code line in emacs, via emacsclient.
This seems to be supported in plain Xdvi version 22.36 or newer
ftp://ftp.math.berkeley.edu/pub/Software/TeX/xdvi.tar.gz
but not in xdvik which is the xdvi version included in teTeX.
I've never used it myself and the only information I've been
able to find is the instructions on how to enable this in
combination with the music typesetting program Lilypond,
http://lilypond.org/development/Documentation/user/out-www/lilypond/Point-and-click.html
There's probably something in the source code distribution of
xdvi as well.
i always found this very useful, but i haven't been able to find out
if teTeX provides the same functionality, and if so, whether i can use
it from within emacs. so does it? and can i?
/Mats
Re: OT:Re: Powerpoint for tetex?
- pstopdf keeps rotating the slides 90°, even if I used
dvips slide.dvi -o -t a4paper -t landscape
before and got normal orientation of the .ps (i.e. normal landscape with
ghostview, but upside-down with gv).
Based on a search of old news group articles at Deja.com,
I implemented the following small script, dvi2pdf which
with the flag -landscape achieves what you want.
You'll have to install the file landscape.ps somewhere
below $TEXMF/dvips/. This solution does not work for
files with a mixture of portrait and landscape pages,
I don't know how/if that could be handled.
Note that we run teTeX 0.9, so for teTeX 1.x, you should
probably replace -Ptype1 with -Ppdf in the script.
Unfortunately the Ghostscript 6.0 distribution includes
a script dvipdf which will not give Type 1 fonts unless
dvips is configured to always use them.
Hope this helps
/Mats
#! /usr/bin/sh
#
# Convert a DVI file to PDF, using dvips and ps2pdf
#
# Mats Bengtsson, February 28, 2000
if [ $# -lt 1 -o $# -gt 3 ]; then
echo "Usage: `basename $0` [-landscape] input[.dvi] [output.pdf]"
exit 127
fi
dvipsflag=''
ps2pdfflag=''
case $1 in
-l*)
dvipsflag="$dvipsflag -h landscape.ps"
ps2pdfflag="$ps2pdfflag -g8420x5950"
shift
;;
-*)
echo "Usage: `basename $0` [-landscape] input[.dvi] [output.pdf]"
exit 127
;;
*)
esac
infile=$1;
base=`basename ${infile} .dvi`;
if [ $# -eq 1 ]
then
outfile=${base}.pdf
else
outfile=$2
fi
tempfile=/tmp/dvipdf$$.ps
trap 'rm -f "$tempfile" /dev/null 21' 0
trap "exit 2" 1 2 3 15
dvips $dvipsflag -Ptype1 -o $tempfile $infile
ps2pdfwr $ps2pdfflag -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -sPAPERSIZE=a4 $tempfile $outfile
# Warn if the PDF file contains bitmapped fonts
if [ `grep -c Type3 $outfile` -gt 0 ]; then
echo "\n\nWarning, PDF file contains bitmapped fonts,"
echo "remove '\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}', in your LaTeX file!\n"
exit 127
fi
landscape.ps
