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+From: owner-UKTeX@nottingham.ac.uk
+To: UKTeX Distribution: ;
+Subject: UKTeX Digest V94 #34
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+Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 17:10:42 +0100
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+
+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" <Martin.Ward@durham.ac.uk>
+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 <Sebastian.Rahtz@cl.cam.ac.uk>
+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 <W.Peel@mmu.ac.uk>
+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.
+
+Thanks
+
+Bill Peel | Computing Services
+w.peel@mmu.ac.uk | Manchester Metropolitan University
+ | Chester Street
+ | Manchester M1 5GD
+ | England
+
+------------------------------
+
+ UK TeX Archive
+ >>> tex.ac.uk <<<
+ Part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN)
+
+ tex.ac.uk -- mail
+ [user@tex.ac.uk]
+
+ ftp.tex.ac.uk -- anonymous ftp
+ [username: anonymous, password: <your-e-mail-address>]
+
+ gopher.tex.ac.uk -- Gopher access
+
+ www.tex.ac.uk -- World-Wide Web access
+ [URL http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive]
+
+ nfs.tex.ac.uk -- NFS access
+ [nfs.tex.ac.uk:/public/ctan/tex-archive]
+
+\section Files of Interest
+
+ tex-archive/00Contents
+ tex-archive/CTAN.sites
+ tex-archive/FILES.bydate
+ tex-archive/FILES.byname
+ tex-archive/FILES.bysize
+ tex-archive/MAP
+ tex-archive/README.archive-features
+ tex-archive/README.site-commands
+ tex-archive/README.uploads
+
+\section Digests
+
+ This year's UKTeX back issues are stored in the archive in directory
+ tex-archive/digests/uktex/94
+ This year's TeXhax back issues are stored in the archive in directory
+ tex-archive/digests/texhax/94
+ Latest TeXhax: V94 #08
+
+\section Media Distributions
+ Postal addresses are given below.
+
+\subsection Washington Unix TeX distribution tape
+ Our latest copy of May/June 1991 contains:
+ TeX 3.14, LaTeX 2.09, Metafont 2.7, plus many utilities
+ suitable for Unix 4.2/4.3BSD & System V
+ tar format, 1 file (36Mb)
+
+ Send One Quarter-Inch Cartridge, QIC-120 or QIC-150 format
+ (DC600A or DC6150) with envelope AND stamps for return
+ postage to David Osborne (address below); regret that due to currency
+ exchange difficulties, this service is offered only within the UK.
+
+\section TeX Implementations for Small Computers
+
+\subsection PC and Mac disks
+
+ From January 1994 the UK TeX Users' Group is distributing an
+ emTeX kit for PCs, and an OzTeX kit for Macintosh. The cost
+ covers copying and postage costs, and the shareware fee for
+ OzTeX. Each set costs \pounds30, and is available from
+ Peter Abbott, 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB.
+ Cheques must be payable to `UKTUG'. Please note that this
+ service **is available to UKTUG members only.**
+
+ Each set comes with an installation guide, and (at least)
+ full TeX and Metafont, a previewer, a PostScript driver, and
+ CM fonts. Two update disks a year will be sent out
+ automatically, with the current version of LaTeXe, and other
+ goodies. A subscription service will be available for
+ subsequent years. In addition, subscribers can request up to
+ 3 disks a year with any material from the CTAN archives, but
+ this will be supplied `as is', without instructions.
+
+ OzTeX and emTeX are also available on disk from TeX Users Group;
+ mail TUG for details.
+
+\subsection TeX for the Atari ST
+
+ Enquiries for TeX for the Atari ST etc. can be directed to:
+ The Fast Club, 7 Musters Road, Nottingham NG2 7PP. Phone
+ 0602 455250, fax 0602 455305. They also supply a variety of
+ TeX-related software in Atari format.
+
+ Enquiries for disks etc. can also be directed to:
+ The South West Software Library, P.O. Box 562, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 2YD
+ Internet: mdryden@cix.compulink.co.uk
+
+\section Postage Rates
+
+ Quarter-inch cartridges: UK: GBP 1.00, Europe: GBP 2.00.
+
+\section Postal Addresses
+
+ Please include SELF-ADDRESSED ADHESIVE LABELS for return postage.
+
+ Peter Abbott
+ 1 Eymore Close, Selly Oak, Birmingham B29 4LB
+ Internet: P.Abbott@aston.ac.uk
+
+ David Osborne
+ Cripps Computing Centre, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD
+ (for Unix cartridges ONLY -- MUST include stamps for return postage)
+ Internet: David.Osborne@nottingham.ac.uk
+
+ TeX Users Group
+ P.O. Box 869, Santa Barbara, CA 93102, USA.
+ Internet: TUG@TUG.org
+
+\section UK TeX Users Group
+
+ Details available from
+ Jonathan Fine, 203 Coldhams Lane, Cambridge CB1 3HY, UK
+ or from
+ Internet: UKTuG-Enquiries@tex.ac.uk
+ or from
+ World-Wide Web server: http://www.tex.ac.uk/UKTUG/home.html
+
+\bye
+
+End of UKTeX Digest [Volume 94 Issue 34]
+****************************************