Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 20:40:14 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- <vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> To: Gary Palmer <gary@palmer.demon.co.uk> Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.91.950402203309.27162F-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu> In-Reply-To: <3594.796862111@palmer.demon.co.uk>
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On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, Gary Palmer wrote:
> [gratituously moved from -hackers - Gary]
>
> In message <Pine.LNX.3.91.950402182804.24501k-100000@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu>
> , -Vince- writes:
> > That would be neat.... netpbm doesn't have like the giftoppm and
> >the other ppm stuff that pbmplus has... Also, the dvips and the TeX in
> >the FreeBSD ports collection is broken in that dvips can't create fonts
> >while running in the background...
>
> Did you report the problems with the TeX stuff? I don't remember hearing
> anything about it!
>
Well, nope but I learned this from the authors of apsfilter and
in the apsfilter 4.9 delta that I have uploaded to ftp.freebsd.com under
/pub/FreeBSD/incoming/aps-4.9delta.tar.gz, the README.TeX consists of the
following info:
Hi there!
Anyone following the development of TeX and friends more
closely will have realized that SOME versions of dvips are NOT
able to deal with the -D option anymore correctly.
This option used to tell dvips which resolution should be used
for the fonts or to create new fonts via MakeTeXPK. So we
supply the small script
setup_dvips.sh
to create small config-files that are used by dvips. A rather
long email-thread with Thomas Esser (check out teTeX for his
real work!!) helped to take care of some exceptions, and this
is the "small" result.
To use dvips with apsfilter just run
./bin/setup_dvips.sh
as root for EACH Printer you intend to use, it'll create small
config-files for your printers that are read by dvips.
Another drawback with newer versions of dvips is the
impossibility to create fonts while being executed from lpr
due to some small bug in dvips. The only "workaround" is to
create missing fonts with xdvi or dvips from the commandline
before printing the document, all other functionality isn't
affected, meaning you still are able to print dvi-files with
ps-includes if your apsfilterrc is setup correctly.
Have fun,
Thomas & Andreas
Again Thanks to Thomas Esser who helped clarifying lots of
hidden details.
According to Andreas and Thomas, the TeX (web2c) FreeBSD has in
ports is broken and they suggested to use teTeX instead.
> And is there any reason for having netpbm but not pbmplus?
>
Hmmm, netpbm is part of the FreeBSD-ports collection and pbmplus
isn't and also netpbm is the same code as pbmplus and a more complete
package but netpbm lacks the ppm stuff that pbmplus has...
> Gary
>
Cheers,
Vince
vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu
UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering
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