Copyright 2007 TeX Users Group. You may freely use, modify and/or distribute this file. Introduction Quick Start - install, run, print What DVIPSONE does What DVIPSONE does not do Level 0 draft standard - minus bitmapped fonts Where to get CM outline fonts? BSR MacIntosh and PC fonts ArborText PC fonts What are outline fonts? advantages over bitmaps lack of dot-growth rendering hints across-job caching Advantages of DVIPSONE Resolution Independent Output Advanced Printer Font Management Installation Automatic Manual Upgrading How to Use Invocation Command Line Arguments Environment Variables Obtaining Help using -? Directing the Output More how to Use Making multiple copies Page range limiting - two styles Reverse order printing Two sided printing Scaling, rotating, offsetting Paper Size Specification Font Substitution Font Substitution Files Missing Fonts Forced Substitution Aliases Printer Resident Fonts Remapping - encoding vectors Allowed Combinations Sample substitution files Figure Insertion PostScript, Encapsulated PostScript, EPSI, EPSF \special and lack of standardization DVI2PS style Textures style DVIALW style suppressing \special mismatch error messages -q or -z Format of font files PFB, PFA and Mac format font files Format of DVI files TeX DVI files Textures DVI Mac files DVItool Font Metric information Why and when needed TFM, AFM, PFM Advanced Topics order of precedence: built-in, environment, command line permanent (`manual') downloading of fonts generating TFM from AFM for TeX remapping font encoding sample encoding vectors checking on rendering speed and page VM usage running out of VM use forced substitution use page range selection Search order for files Search paths File name extensions input: .dvi, then .tex font: .pfb, .pfa, null, __.pfb, __.pfa illus as specified, in pspath, in PS file dir, in current dir default directories - in ps file dir, in dvipsone program dir subs vec pream Specifications Level 0 draft standard 64 fonts font numbers up to 255 characters in range 0 to 255 no restrictions on number of characters on page no restrictions on number of rules on page no restriction on size of character no restriction on size of rule stack depth and alternate preamble beyond level 0 draft standard 128 entries in font substitution file Performance AT class 286 without coprocessor Interpreting output from DVIPSONE verbose mode Timing information Error Messages error message current task when error occured position in DVI file What to about bugs in DVIPSONE there shouldn't be any using ehandler.ps serial number, date and time of compilation supplying DVI file generating error Appendix Getting optimum performance Main Limitation: I/O Disk Cache Virtual Disk for PS output Print Spooler Parallel ports preferred Increasing baud rate on serial ports Auxiliary Utility Programs (supplied without warranty) MODEX.COM DOWNLOAD.EXE AFMTOTFM.EXE EHANDLER.PS Also available: Mac to PC diskette copying Also available: Reprocess for use with ATM, convert AFM to PFM. Also available: Complete set of CM fonts - get the missing 35 fonts % BBox at end treated correctly % EPSI, EPSF treated correctly % (one page) output can be treated as EPS file