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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/dvips/aurora/readme b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/dvips/aurora/readme new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..bb40b4737f0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/dvips/aurora/readme @@ -0,0 +1,75 @@ +Offset printers need separate camera-ready copies for each ink +they will use in printing a document. Aurora is a PostScript +program for producing colour separates from a colour PostScript +document. Aurora can be run from any type of computer, as it +depends only on a black-and-white PostScript printer for its +execution. It is capable of handling colour images as well as +ordinary graphics, though image handling is very slow. + +============================================================================= +CONTENTS +======== + +The Aurora distribution consists of the files + +README This file. + +aurora The Aurora PostScript program. + +auroratx.ps A description of how Aurora works, its limitations, and + examples showing what it will do. This document is + suitable for printing on a colour printer, a Level 2 + machine, viewing with a PostScript interpreter, or as + a last resort, printing on an old Level 1 machine. + The last page, containing several images, is extremely + slow to output. + +cyan These four files allow selection of the primary colour +magenta for a particular run of Aurora. Any colour used in +yellow a document will be separated into these components, and +black the amount of the selected primary will be output. + +red These three files are examples of how to select custom +green colours. When used with Aurora, only precise matches +blue to a custom colour are output (either as full black or + as a shade of gray). + +60.lpi When using the CMYK colours, it is useful to set up +71.lpi different screens for halftones of the different +85.lpi primaries. These files contain instructions obtained + from the Adobe file server for establishing suitable + screens for a desired dot density. The parameters + used in these files may vary between machines, and + you may find it necessary to consult the PPD file + appropriate to your machine from the Adobe file server + for more suitable numbers for setting colour screens + on your hardware. + +============================================================================= +USAGE +===== + +It is necessary to send to the PostScript printer the file +"aurora", followed by a colour primary selection, optionally a +screen specification, and then the document itself. With some +operating systems, it is best to join (or concatenate) the separate +files into one before despatch to the printer. They must be +treated as a single job by the PostScript printer. + +This procedure must be followed for each desired separate. + +For example, the files + aurora magenta 60.lpi mydoc +would be sent as a single file to the printer to print the magenta +separate of "mydoc", using a 60 lines per inch screen. +============================================================================= + +Aurora is available by anonymous FTP from "ftp.adfa.oz.au" in +directory "pub/postscript". + +Aurora may not be used for commercial purposes without the consent +of the author. It may be freely transmitted provided the authorship +and copyright notice is retained unmodified. + + Graham Freeman + gfreeman@cs.adfa.oz.au |