Dvips: A DVI to PostScript Translator

for version 5.58f

January 1995

Tomas Rokicki

(edited for Dvipsk by kb@cs.umb.edu)

• Why Use dvips?
• Using dvips
• Paper Size and Landscape Orientation
• Including PostScript Graphics
• The Bounding Box Comment
• Using the EPSF Macros
• Header Files
• Literal PostScript
• Literal Headers
• Other Graphics Support
• Dynamic Creation of PostScript Graphics Files
• Using PostScript Fonts
• The Afm2tfm Program
• Changing a Font's Encoding
• Special Font Effects
• Non-resident PostScript Fonts
• Invoking Afm2tfm
• Invoking dvips
• Configuration File Searching
• Configuration File Options
• Automatic Font Generation
• Environment Variables
• Other Bells And Whistles
• MS-DOS
• Installation
• Diagnosing problems
• Debug Options
• No Output At All
• Output Too Small or Inverted
• Error Messages From Printer
• 400 DPI Is Used Instead Of 300 DPI
• Long Documents Fail To Print
• Including Graphics Fails
• Unable to Generate Fonts
• Using Color with dvips
• Macro Files
• User Definable Colors
• Subtleties in Using Color
• Printing in Black/White, after Colorizing
• Configuring dvips for Color Devices
• Color Support Details
• Index