new dvips
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. Thanks. Kalyan Dimitri Antoniou writes: Hi, I downloaded and compiled version 5.92 of dvips. When we say that the character shifting issue has been corrected, do we mean that dvips -Ppdf ... without either -G or -G0, now works for computer modern, adobe postscript, and combinations of them? Is that right? Dimitri
Re: new dvips
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, 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. Most browsers have an option to download a link target. Try clicking on the link with the outside button (right hand button if you have a right handed mouse). If your linux system is connected to the internet, there are command-line tools to download files such as wget. Also, text-mode browsers such as links and lynx have a download command. -- George White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia
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: new dvips
Hi, Something strange happened. A question I had asked last month was re-posted yesterday, even though it was not sent by me. Just for the record, Thomas had answered my question: -- When we say that the character shifting issue has been corrected, do we mean that dvips -Ppdf ... without either -G or -G0, now works for computer modern, adobe postscript, and combinations of them? Is that right? It means that -G1 (as set e.g. via -Ppdf) does no longer produce incorrect output. The remapping of characters works for computer modern, but it does not work for a lot of other fonts. The new dvips decides on a per-font basis whether to remap it or not and it only remaps if that won't mess up the result. Thomas
new dvips
Hi, I downloaded and compiled version 5.92 of dvips. When we say that the character shifting issue has been corrected, do we mean that dvips -Ppdf ... without either -G or -G0, now works for computer modern, adobe postscript, and combinations of them? Is that right? Dimitri
Re: new dvips
When we say that the character shifting issue has been corrected, do we mean that dvips -Ppdf ... without either -G or -G0, now works for computer modern, adobe postscript, and combinations of them? Is that right? It means that -G1 (as set e.g. via -Ppdf) does no longer produce incorrect output. The remapping of characters works for computer modern, but it does not work for a lot of other fonts. The new dvips decides on a per-font basis whether to remap it or not and it only remaps if that won't mess up the result. Thomas
