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- This folder contains Tom Kiffe's dvips program for use with OzTeX.
- See OzTeX's Read-Me file for installation instructions and details about
- Tom's shareware fees.
-
- This is a fairly minimal version of dvips. Tom's full CMacTeX distribution
- contains a lot of other stuff that you might find useful, including a native
- PowerPC version of dvips and other related tools like afm2tfm, psnup, etc.
- Get these files from any CTAN archive in /tex-archive/systems/mac/cmactex.
- Get the Readme.Index file first; it tells you which files you need.
-
- Dvips is a port of Tom Rokicki’s dvips5516 to the Macintosh.
- The source for the dvips manual is supplied in the "dvips.tex" file.
- Typeset this file using Plain TeX. The file "test.tex" is a useful test.
-
- People who run dvips from OzTeX need not read the following material.
- It is provided in case you want to run dvips directly.
-
- RUNNING DVIPS
-
- The command line arguments of the Unix version of dvips have
- been replaced by menu selections in the Mac version. Upon start-up,
- the program reads the config.ps file. Since the default values
- given in this file will be overwritten if a different config file is called,
- their values are not reflected in the Options menu. The options to
- dvips which are just switches are set from the Options menu by
- choosing one of two values. If you click the "Send No" button, the option
- is turned off and the default setting is overridden, and if you click
- the "Send Yes" button, the option is turned on, again overriding the
- default value. If neither of these buttons are set no additional
- information about the particular option will be sent to dvips.
-
- If dvips is not doing what you want, hold down the
- option key while selecting "Run" from the File menu and the
- program will print the actual Unix command line which is being
- sent to dvips. The first option passed to dvips is the name of any
- additional configuration file. After reading this file, dvips will then
- process any options you have explicitly set from the Options menu.
-
- Dvips has a transfer menu which allows the user to launch other
- applications from within dvips. This menu is configured by variables
- set in dvips.env.
-
- RUNNING DVIPS IN COMMAND MODE (À LA UNIX)
-
- The first option under the Options menu is "Use command mode."
- If this item is selected dvips runs like a Unix program in that all
- options except the input and output files are entered on a
- command line. The input file name and the (optional) output file
- name are still entered from the File menu. When you now select
- “Run”, dvips prints the Unix command line and waits for the user to
- enter any options and press return.
-
- AUTOMATIC FONT GENERATION
-
- Automatic font generation is supported by sending Apple Events to
- Metafont and GFtoPK in order to build any missing pk files. When dvips
- cannot find a pk file, it generates the needed pk file and then continues
- processing the dvi file. If the automatic font generation in dvips is
- turned off, dvips records the commands needed to produce the missing pk
- fonts in a file called "missfont.log."
-
- To use this feature you will need a complete Metafont set-up,
- i.e., inimf and all the .mf input files. You also need a base file
- called mf.base built with inimf. The default Metafont mode used by dvips
- is "laserwriter", i.e., 300 dpi fonts for a LaserWriter. If you wish to
- use a different default mode, change the mode option in config.ps.
-
- Please note that dvips only generates missing pk files. If you encounter a
- missing tfm file when running TeX, there is no way to generate a dvi file
- and thus have dvips generate the missing font. In this situation you have
- to generate the tfm file manually with Metafont, run TeX to get a dvi file,
- and then run dvips. Dvips will produce the appropriately sized pk files.
- See the documentation with Metafont on how to generate tfm and pk files
- manually.
-
- POSTSCRIPT FONTS
-
- If you use PostScript fonts with your TeX documents, be sure to read the
- dvips manual. You may have to make changes to "psfonts.map" in order for
- dvips to recognize the PostScript fonts and not try to make spurious pk
- fonts. This Macintosh port of dvips will read .pfa and .pfb files, as
- well as the special Macintosh PostScript font files with creator 'LWFN'.
-