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From: kientzle@netcom.com
Subject: Re: DVI on Epson printers
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Date: Fri, 24 May 1996 17:04:28 GMT
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bacon@miller.cs.uwm.edu (Jason Bacon) wrote:
> I have an Espon Stylus ink-jet printer, and I'd like to print
> DVI files on it from BSD. All I could find filters for were
> the laser-jet series. Does anyone know if the Stylus is supported?
The `Mother of all TeX resources' is CTAN (the Comprehensive
TeX Archive Network). The US node is on ftp.shsu.edu. You should
be able to find a DVI-Epson converter there.
A lot, of course, depends on how you'll be using it. If you'll be
using this a lot, I'd recommend setting up DVIPS and configuring
GhostScript. That will give you a lot of nice frills, including
on-the-fly font generation (which the old DVI-Epson converters
probably don't support), and access to some of the more sophisticated
graphics and font packages that rely on PostScript output.
If you'll just be using it occasionally, and only using
Computer Modern fonts, then your best bet is probably to go
with an old DVI-Epson converter and download a batch of pre-built
fonts just for that system. You might also ask on comp.text.tex
for additional pointers.
- Tim Kientzle