From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 2 17:40:54 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA17098 for ports-outgoing; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 17:40:54 -0700 Received: from kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu (root@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu [130.132.128.124]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id RAA17092 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 1995 17:40:53 -0700 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 1995 20:40:14 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Gary Palmer cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-Reply-To: <3594.796862111@palmer.demon.co.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 2 Apr 1995, Gary Palmer wrote: > [gratituously moved from -hackers - Gary] > > In message > , -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