[738] in comp.os.os2.announce archive
SOFTWARE: DVIPS TeX/LaTeX to PS drivers (update)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stefan A. Deutscher)
Thu Feb 29 05:28:54 1996
To: os2ann.DISCUSS@bloom-picayune.MIT.EDU
Date: 28 Feb 1996 03:37:01 GMT
From: sad@utkux.utcc.utk.edu (Stefan A. Deutscher)
Reply-To: sad@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
Reply-To: sad@utkux.utcc.utk.edu
Submitted by: Stefan A. Deutscher
Source: Uploader
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I have just uploaded the latest version of dvips (v5.58) as found on CTAN
sites to hobbes ftp://ftp-os2.nmsu.edu/incoming/ and cdrom
ftp://ftp-os2.cdrom.com/pub/os2/incoming/. CTAN stands for `Comprehensive TeX
Archive Network', one site is, e.g. ftp.shsu.edu, where lots of (La)TeX
macros, packages, and binaries for all kinds of operating systems live.
Dvips is a (in fact: the ultimate) PostScript driver that generates PS output
from TeX or LaTeX generated dvi files. It allows hassle free inlcusion of
postscript figures in the documents, and offers multiple ways to scale them,
allows inclusion of literal PostScript (for those who speak PostScript), too,
allows for colour postscript output, etc. It seems to be the *de facto*
standard to combine (La)TeX output and PostScript.
This version of dvips works with the latest EmTeX release as found on hobbes
and cdrom, too, and supports the new structure of directories and environments
that EmTeX has since about July '95. The versions of dvips currently on these
os/2 sites require much manual magic to work together with this release of
EmTeX and are simply older. EmTeX is the (IMHO) best implementation of TeX,
LaTeX, and LaTeX2e for OS/2 (and DOS which I can't comment on since 1992
anymore), and it's free.
I have, of course, written neither of these fabulous packages. I just uploaded
one from one TeX oriented site to another, OS/2 oriented. Have fun and thank
the folks who actually code and port that stuff!
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ftp ftp-os2 1291 Feb 20 17:05 dvipsdoc.txt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ftp ftp-os2 112405 Feb 20 17:05 dvipsdoc.zip
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ftp ftp-os2 1141 Feb 20 17:05 dvipsfnt.txt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ftp ftp-os2 182491 Feb 20 17:06 dvipsfnt.zip
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ftp ftp-os2 1135 Feb 20 17:05 dvipsini.txt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ftp ftp-os2 421777 Feb 20 17:06 dvipsini.zip
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ftp ftp-os2 1117 Feb 20 17:05 dvipssrc.txt
-rwxrwxr-x 1 ftp ftp-os2 173767 Feb 20 17:06 dvipssrc.zip
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