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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!yeshua.marcam.com!MathWorks.Com!uhog.mit.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.smith.edu!jfieber From: jfieber@grendel.csc.smith.edu (J Fieber) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: deskjet dvi driver fro FreeBSD Date: 31 Jul 1994 14:32:15 GMT Organization: Smith College, Northampton, MA, USA Lines: 35 Message-ID: <31gclf$ju2@sylvia.smith.edu> References: <CtrGIL.6B5@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: grendel.csc.smith.edu In article <CtrGIL.6B5@helios.physics.utoronto.ca>, Jacques Legare <jacques@helios.physics.utoronto.ca> wrote: >I am looking for a dvi driver for the deskjet 500. ... >I seem to recall that Beebe had a dvidsk (or was it an option to >dvijet?) that I used to use on DOS circa 1989. I ftp to math.utah.edu >and found nothing relating to the deskjet. I tried a number of drivers and even hacked on some to make them work better. In the end, however, I've settled on using dvips and ghostscript. With a proper /etc/printcap entry and a shell script, you can make your deskjet look like a postscript printer to an application. For most TeX output, there is a negligible difference in performance between dvi->pcl and dvi->ps->pcl. The ps->pcl translation happens transparently so there are not any extra steps for the user and you get all the benefits of postscript. Ghostscript is useful for other things such as on-screen viewing of postscript files and such. If you want good postscript fonts, you really should get the real Adobe ones though. The ones that come with ghostscript are pretty bad. Incidentally, as I recall, the dvijet driver *does* work on a deskjet, although it is far from optimal. -john -- === jfieber@cs.smith.edu ================================================ =================================== Come up and be a kite! --K. Bush ===