Dvips: A DVI-to-PostScript Translator

for version 5.66a

February 1997

• 1. Why use Dvips?
• 2. Installation
  • 2.1 `config.ps' installation
  • 2.2 PostScript font installation
  • 2.3 Ghostscript installation
  • 2.4 Diagnosing problems
    • 2.4.1 Debug options
    • 2.4.2 No output at all
    • 2.4.3 Output too small or inverted
    • 2.4.4 Error messages from printer
    • 2.4.5 Long documents fail to print
    • 2.4.6 Including graphics fails
• 3. Invoking Dvips
  • 3.1 Basic usage of Dvips
  • 3.2 Command-line options
    • 3.2.1 Option summary
    • 3.2.2 Option details
  • 3.3 Environment variables
  • 3.4 Dvips configuration files
    • 3.4.1 Configuration file searching
    • 3.4.2 Configuration file commands
• 4. Paper size and landscape orientation
  • 4.1 `papersize' special
  • 4.2 Configuration file paper size command
  • 4.3 Paper trays
• 5. Interaction with PostScript
  • 5.1 PostScript figures
    • 5.1.1 The bounding box comment
    • 5.1.2 Using the EPSF macros
      • 5.1.2.1 EPSF scaling
      • 5.1.2.2 EPSF clipping
    • 5.1.3 `psfile' special
    • 5.1.4 Dynamic creation of PostScript graphics files
    • 5.1.5 Fonts in figures
  • 5.2 PostScript header files
    • 5.2.1 Including headers from TeX
    • 5.2.2 Including headers from the command line
    • 5.2.3 Headers and memory usage
  • 5.3 Literal PostScript
    • 5.3.1 " special: Literal PostScript
    • 5.3.2 `ps' special
    • 5.3.3 Literal headers: `!' \special
    • 5.3.4 PostScript hooks
    • 5.3.5 Literal examples
  • 5.4 HyperTeXt
    • 5.4.1 Hypertext caveats
    • 5.4.2 Hypertext specials
• 6. PostScript fonts
  • 6.1 Font concepts
    • 6.1.1 Metric files
    • 6.1.2 Glyph files
    • 6.1.3 Virtual fonts
    • 6.1.4 Encodings
    • 6.1.5 How PostScript typesets a character
  • 6.2 Making a PostScript font available
  • 6.3 Invoking Afm2tfm
    • 6.3.1 Changing font encodings
      • 6.3.1.1 `-t': Changing TeX encodings
      • 6.3.1.2 `-p': Changing PostScript encodings
      • 6.3.1.3 `-T': Changing both TeX and PostScript encodings
      • 6.3.1.4 Reencoding with Afm2tfm
      • 6.3.1.5 Encoding file format
    • 6.3.2 Special font effects
    • 6.3.3 Afm2tfm options
  • 6.4 `psfonts.map': PostScript font catalog
• 7. Color
  • 7.1 Color macro files
  • 7.2 User-definable colors
  • 7.3 Color subtleties
  • 7.4 Printing in black/white after colorizing
  • 7.5 Color device configuration
  • 7.6 Color support details
    • 7.6.1 Color specifications
    • 7.6.2 Color specials
• Index

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