From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Apr 6 21:01:25 1995 Return-Path: ports-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA21166 for ports-outgoing; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 21:01:25 -0700 Received: from kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu (root@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu [130.132.128.124]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA21160 for ; Thu, 6 Apr 1995 21:01:24 -0700 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 1995 00:00:42 -0400 (EDT) From: -Vince- To: Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /etc/printcap for Deskjet 500 and gs In-Reply-To: <199504070355.UAA26229@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: ports-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Satoshi Asami/=?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCQHUbKEI=?= =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCOCsbKEIgGyRCOC0bKEI=?= wrote: > * Yes, it needs TeX to print dvi files for dvips when dvips is making > * fonts... xfig and transfig, it's to handle printing of fig files :-) > > Are you sure? You don't need TeX to convert dvi files to PostScript... > that's entirely dvips's job, TeX will take .tex and make .dvi...also, > converting fig files to PS is transfig's job, not xfig's. xfig just > makes .fig files, and it's actually calling transfig if you use the > "export" button. > > Satoshi > Yep, because dvips needs TeX to create the required fonts I think... That's why the TeX package (web2c) that FreeBSD uses for the port doesn't work well with dvips in creating the fonts while teTeX works fine... As for xfig, you need both though I don't know what xfig is used for.... Cheers, Vince -*vince@kbrown.oldcampus.yale.edu*- UCLA Physics/Electrical Engineering