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diff --git a/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.34 b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.34 new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..8c8774e6d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/info/digests/uktex/94/uktex.34 @@ -0,0 +1,237 @@ +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" <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. 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