Re: [sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-18 Thread Dima Pasechnik
Are you talking about the postscript files produced by dvips? You probably only installed a small subset of fonts, and scaling them produces substandard results. It can also be that dvips is set up to create 300 DPI (dots per inch) docs - this is easy to fix then (but depends upon a particular

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-18 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
I think that better is to use scalable fonts. this should be default in modern distribution. What exactly you have installed? texlive? from where, from texlive homepage or from centos repository? Try to compile you ps into PDF (using ps2pdf), open PDF document, go to the document - properties and

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-18 Thread Mikie
I am using the latex in Moodle and I had Moodle's latex filter turned on. I removed it and the fonts are great. Before it was creating an image. On Dec 18, 2:22 am, ma...@mendelu.cz ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: I think that better is to use scalable fonts. this should be default in modern

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-17 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
I think that rpm cannot be used to install into home directory, since the install patch is hardwired in the rpm. Ask at the forum specific to your distribution. You can also try to install from sources or texlive. I think that both can be installed to home directory without root priviledges. But

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-17 Thread Mikie
Robert, great stuff. I am installing now. How long does it take? On Dec 17, 1:33 am, ma...@mendelu.cz ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: I think that rpm cannot be used to install into home directory, since the install patch is hardwired in the rpm. Ask at the forum specific to your distribution. You

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-17 Thread Mikie
It took about hour and a half. The fonts are a little fuzzy. Is there anyway to fix this? On Dec 17, 11:38 am, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Robert, great stuff.  I am installing now.  How long does it take? On Dec 17, 1:33 am, ma...@mendelu.cz ma...@mendelu.cz wrote: I think

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-16 Thread ma...@mendelu.cz
I think that there are more options how to install things in Cents. If yum is broken in your instalation, try some other method. Do you have root ssh acces? If so, I think that easiest method is to install texlive http://www.tug.org/texlive/ use wget ... to download, unpack and run install

Re: [sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-16 Thread Dima Pasechnik
you can install tex in your home directory. You would not need root permissions for this (but make sure you have enough disk space - I imagine such providers have disk quotas; a reasonable installation of tex can easily take 250Mb or so -- you get get away with much less, but this would require

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-16 Thread Mikie
I have to do it in my home directory. I have the two files -- tet- latex 3.0-33.8.el5.ie386.rpm and tet-dvips 3.0-33.8.el5.ie386.rpm. This for Centos 5.3. Now what do I do. On Dec 16, 5:55 am, Dima Pasechnik dimp...@gmail.com wrote: you can install tex in your home directory. You would not

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-15 Thread Mikie
I need latex binary and dvips binary. My Linux is poor. Where do I get it and how to install. On Dec 14, 4:30 pm, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mikie, On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Is the latex and dvips binary installed in the Sage

Re: [sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-15 Thread Jaap Spies
Mikie wrote: I need latex binary and dvips binary. My Linux is poor. Where do I get it and how to install. What OS are you on? Linux, but which distribution? Jaap -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-15 Thread Mikie
Centos 5.3 on BlueHost. On Dec 15, 9:52 am, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: Mikie wrote: I need latex binary and dvips binary.  My Linux is poor.  Where do I get it and how to install. What OS are you on? Linux, but which distribution? Jaap -- To post to this group, send email to

Re: [sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-15 Thread Minh Nguyen
Hi Mikie, On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Mikie thephantom6...@hotmail.com wrote: Centos 5.3 on BlueHost. You should use the package manager for your operating system. For CentOS, Fedora and Red Hat, a package manager to use is yum. For example, you could install LaTeX as follows: yum install

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-15 Thread Mikie
I tried yum install textlive and it gave me the following error--error accessing file for config file ///etc/yum.conf. I can't get to the Package Manager. It is on BlueHost. On Dec 15, 10:18 am, Minh Nguyen nguyenmi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mikie, On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 4:14 AM, Mikie

Re: [sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-15 Thread Jaap Spies
Mikie wrote: I tried yum install textlive and it gave me the following error--error accessing file for config file ///etc/yum.conf. I can't get to the Package Manager. It is on BlueHost. What is BlueHost? OK: http://www.bluehost.com/ Maybe you can ask support from this provider? Cheers,

[sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-15 Thread Mikie
BlueHost is my webhost. I have talked to support and they won't install latex binary or dvips binary. On Dec 15, 11:25 am, Jaap Spies j.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: Mikie wrote: I tried yum install textlive and it gave me the following error--error accessing file for config file ///etc/yum.conf.

Re: [sage-support] Re: latex binary and dvips binary

2009-12-15 Thread Jaap Spies
Mikie wrote: BlueHost is my webhost. I have talked to support and they won't install latex binary or dvips binary. So you are at the end of the line! Go for a better webhost. Or install Sage on your own computer. Good luck! Jaap On Dec 15, 11:25 am, Jaap Spiesj.sp...@hccnet.nl wrote: