[435] in SIPB bug reports
problem with dvi2ps output
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Tue Mar 28 03:03:40 1989
From: tuna@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 89 03:01:35 EST
To: bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
i'm using latex to do some writing and would like to (somehow) reverse
the order of the pages spit out by dvi2ps ('cause i'm too lazy to do
it myself, in part, but it does get really annoying with large
documents).
so i tried using the obvious answer: psrev.
observe the following shell transcript:
> m1-142-14:/mit/tuna/alef/thesis: dvi2ps main | psrev | lpr -P plato
> [/usr/sipb/lib/tex/ps/dvi.ps][7] [6] [5] [4] [3] [2] [1]
> psrev: PS file does not begin with a version identifier
> lpr: stdin: empty input file
in the man page for psrev, i'm told that
psrev reads in a POSTSCRIPT file (or the standard input if
no file is named), and if the input conforms to the
POSTSCRIPT file structuring conventions, reverses and
selects the specified pages for printing and writes the
resulting file on the standard output.
presumably, given this statement and the error message shown above,
the output of dvi2ps does not conform to the POSTSCRIPT file
structuring conventions. any idea how to go about fixing this?
thanks
kirk johnson
