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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-otherprinters.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-otherprinters.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..2cd11b92d44 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-otherprinters.html @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label otherprinters</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Output to "other" printers</h3> +<p>In the early years of TeX, there were masses of DVI drivers +for any (then) imaginable kind of printer, but the steam seems rather +to have gone out of the market for production of such drivers for +printer-specific formats. There are several reasons for this, but the +primary one is that few formats offer the flexibility available +through PostScript, and <i>ghostscript</i> is <em>so</em> good, and +has <em>such</em> a wide range of printer drivers (perhaps this is where +the DVI output driver writers have all gone?). +<p>The general advice, then, is to +<a href="FAQ-dvips.html">generate PostScript</a>, and to process +that with <i>ghostscript</i> set to generate the format for the +printer you actually have. If you are using a Unix system of some +sort, it's generally quite easy to insert <i>ghostscript</i> into +the print spooling process. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>ghostscript</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/nonfree/support/ghostscript/">nonfree/support/ghostscript/</a> +</dl> +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=otherprinters">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=otherprinters</a> +</body> |