From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk To: UKTeX Distribution: ; Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #34 Reply-To: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Errors-To: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk Distribution: world MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 17:10:42 +0100 Message-ID: <14289.779127042@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk> Sender: cczdao@unicorn.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk UKTeX Digest Friday, 9 Sep 1994 Volume 94 : Issue 34 Today's Topics: Re: Postscript macros Re: Postscript macros Re: Postscript macros YINIT fonts Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (UK TeX Users Group) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@tex.ac.uk Subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@tex.ac.uk (message body = "subscribe uktex" or "unsubscribe uktex", [no quotes]) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 02 Sep 1994 13:10:09 +0000 From: maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson) Subject: Re: Postscript macros In article <346s0f$pfp@deneb.dur.ac.uk>, "M.P.Ward" writes: ... > Yes, ghostscript can! I have used it to interpret "perverse postscript > files" which were too perverse for my printer. I used Ghostscript to > interpret the file and generate a 300dpi pbm file (portable bitmap). > The pbmplus package includes a program which turns a pbm file back into > postscript. Of course, it generates nice encapsulated postscript > (but resolution dependent, and HUGE!). Yes, that is indeed one possible approach, and is very close to what I had in mind, but not exactly. The snag is that it goes one step too far, and actually interprets the graphics primitives. So you are stuck with ghostscript's rendering, which may not be as good as the printer can do (especially if there is embedded text). What I'd like to be able to do is stop just short of the point at which the graphics primitives are rendered into bitmaps, and emit clean PostScript which will eventually be rendered into an equivalent image when it gets to the printer. Martyn Johnson maj@cl.cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge Computer Lab Cambridge UK ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 02 Sep 1994 13:44:03 +0000 From: bruce@liverpool.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens) Subject: Re: Postscript macros >>>>> On 2 Sep 1994 13:10:09 GMT, maj@cl.cam.ac.uk (Martyn Johnson) said: > What I'd like to be able to do is stop just short of the point at > which the graphics primitives are rendered into bitmaps, and emit > clean PostScript which will eventually be rendered into an > equivalent image when it gets to the printer. That would be nice, but I don't think there's anything out there to do it yet. Ghostscript has another useful feature, however: it can turn a (single page) postscript image into encapsulated postscript. Bruce Institute of Advanced Scientific Computation bruce@liverpool.ac.uk University of Liverpool ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Sep 1994 09:26:41 +0100 From: Sebastian Rahtz Subject: Re: Postscript macros further to the request to deal with horrible PostScript, there is a scrip which comes with GhostScript 23 called, i think, ps2epsi, which reads nasty PS and writes better PS. *not* a bitmap output, as in Martin Ward's approach. Well worth a look. sebastian rahtz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Sep 1994 12:24:15 +0000 From: Bill Peel Subject: YINIT fonts Does anyone know where I can obtain the metafont file(s) to generate the yinit font. From CTAN I have obtained the contents of the yinit font directory under tex-archive\fonts\... but this contains yinitas.mf and NOT yinit.mf. Yinitas seems to be a much larger font than yinit (ca 40pt cf 10pt). I need it to print the Japanese-produced styus-e.dvi file which is a guide to using macros and style files in LaTeX. 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