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Re: AucTeX

Some time ago I stumbled upon a package which provides a solution
for this problem. It's called flpr and is a "magic filter" running 
in the user space so it can e.g. get to the .ps files.  Further, it
has some nice features as being able to print a .ps file in 2 or even
4 pages per physical side. 

It's available as a .deb package, but installs under /usr/local.  It
can be found under 

	ftp://ftp.ci.tuwien.ac.at/pub/export/flpr

I've been using it for almost all my printing.  However, for plain
ascii files I'm atp since flpr apparently calls a2ps with some "new"
options which the current version of a2ps doesn't understand.  Maybe
someone can take this up and turn it into an official package which
works full featured. 

Thanks,

Ardo

Hubert Weikert <weikert@muninn.cube.net> writes:

> The .ps Files are included by dvips during his run as part of the
> lpd magicfilter. This process runs in a other directory (the spool
> directory). Xdvi runs in your working directory. The use of
> magicfilter makes no sense if you want to reference other files from
> your print file (like .ps files from .dvi).
> 
> If you like to include the .ps files from magicfilter, then you must
> refence them by absolute names, like
> /home/somebody/work/latex/doc1/picture1.ps in your LaTeX-source.
> This has the disadvantage of not beeing portable, this work onlyn on
> systems, where magicfilter has access to home directory.
> 
> The prefered way ist to run dvips in your working directory (e.g. done
> by AuCTeX) and feed the PostScript output to lpd. The command to do this
> is 'dvips -f file.dvi | lpr'.
> 
> Regards,
> Hubert
> 
> On Sat, 10 Jan 1998, Britton wrote:
> > dvips is invoked by magic filter, but the new LaTeX includes standard
> > packages for including ps graphics.  The .dvi docs for the graphics
> > package say some additional commands (besides including the graphics
> > package) may be needed to tell LaTeX what driver you are using (dvips in
> > this case) since colors and graphics are really implemented there.
> > Magicfilter has a feature called fpipe which the magicfilter docs state as
> > being useful for 'programs which require seekable input, such as dvips, or
> > which need to do multiple passes over an input file, such as grog'.  I
> > have once read something in the Linux Journal about using multiple passes
> > to get embedded ps images to print right.  I'll have to dig that up again,
> > because for me the the images get left out, while all the text (including
> > captions) appears.  The pictures appear when previewing with xdvi though.
> > What goes on exactly I do not know.
> 
> > Britton
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