Hello again,
Thanks to Mats and Metod for pointing out ps2pdf and several
others who replied about contacting the author/maintainer of gv.
THERE SEEMS TO BE A PROBLEM WITH dvips!
I have tried doing the following experiment three times
with identical & very peculiar results:
$mkdir test
$cd test
Now create a file hello.tex which is:
*******************************************************
Hello, world!
\bye
*******************************************************
Now I do:
$ tex hello
This yields hello.dvi. Then
$ dvips hello.dvi -o hello_dvips.ps
This creates hello_dvips.ps
$ gv hello_dvips.ps
gv open up with the pp p ps file visible (barely to my
cataract-afflicted eyes) but the frame says "gv: hello.dvi"!
Now I do:
$ps2pdf hello_dvips.ps hello_dvips.pdf
When I view the resulting pdf file with xpdf it shows garbage! When I
close xpdf, on the xemacs shell I see
"xpdf Error: File contains Type 3 fonts"
Now I do
$pdftex hello
This gives hello.pdf
$pdftops hello.pdf
This yields hello.ps
$gv hello.ps opens up gv with hello.ps and this time the frame says
hello.ps
$ps2pdf hello.ps then produces a file hello.pdf which is fine.
What on earth is the matter?
Help, suggestions will be appreciated.
Kalyan
