Dvips: A DVI-to-PostScript Translator

for version 5.58g

November 1996

• Why use Dvips?
• Installation
  • `config.ps' installation
  • PostScript font installation
  • Ghostscript installation
  • Diagnosing problems
    • Debug options
    • No output at all
    • Output too small or inverted
    • Error messages from printer
    • Long documents fail to print
    • Including graphics fails
• Invoking Dvips
  • Basic usage of Dvips
  • Command-line options
    • Option summary
    • Option details
  • Environment variables
  • Dvips configuration files
    • Configuration file searching
    • Configuration file commands
• Paper size and landscape orientation
  • `papersize' special
  • Configuration file paper size command
  • Paper trays
• Interaction with PostScript
  • PostScript figures
    • The bounding box comment
    • Using the EPSF macros
      • EPSF scaling
      • EPSF clipping
    • `psfile' special
    • Dynamic creation of PostScript graphics files
    • Fonts in figures
  • PostScript header files
    • Including headers from TeX
    • Including headers from the command line
    • Headers and memory usage
  • Literal PostScript
    • " special: Literal PostScript
    • `ps' special
    • Literal headers: `!' \special
    • PostScript hooks
    • Literal examples
  • HyperTeXt
    • Hypertext caveats
    • Hypertext specials
• PostScript fonts
  • Font concepts
    • Metric files
    • Glyph files
    • Virtual fonts
    • Encodings
    • How PostScript typesets a character
  • Making a PostScript font available
  • Invoking Afm2tfm
    • Changing font encodings
      • `-t': Changing TeX encodings
      • `-p': Changing PostScript encodings
      • `-T': Changing both TeX and PostScript encodings
      • Reencoding with Afm2tfm
      • Encoding file format
    • Special font effects
    • Afm2tfm options
  • `psfonts.map': PostScript font catalog
• Color
  • Color macro files
  • User-definable colors
  • Color subtleties
  • Printing in black/white after colorizing
  • Color device configuration
  • Color support details
    • Color specifications
    • Color specials
• Index

This document was generated on 13 January 1997 using the texi2html translator version 1.51.