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TeXcolorrgb vs. setrgbcolor
setrgbcolor is the PostScript primitive to set an RGB colour. TeXcolorrgb is the name dvips inserts into the PostScript stream if you use a color \special with model rgb, this indirection allows for ...
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Is it possible to use ALT 227 (π) as a PostScript constant?
As far as I can see (postscript manual page 45 names have to be characters and characters have to be "printable ascii" and there are no ascii characters above 127. As noted in comments elsewhere the ...
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Why do people still use Postscript?
One reason I recently learned about is that you can generate a printer-specific PS file (e.g. by using your PDF reader's print to file feature), which already contains all the printer settings you ...
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How do I include Postscript graphics in a LaTeX file?
Trying the solution suggested by @user11232, it does work. Since that user is no longer available, and with the desire to respond this unanswered question, it is important to have it solved for future ...
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Microtype package is not supported dvips output
Automatic font expansion does not work with pdflatex in DVI mode (which is what is implicitly called when you run latex), therefore microtype will switch off font expansion by default. This results in ...
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Are Knuth's fonts searchable in pdf yet?
Type 3 fonts can be given encoding vectors as of the pdftex in the 2018 release, thanks to Pali Rohar.
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How to include EPS in LuaLaTeX multiple times and have the postscript code run each time?
You could change the suffix between two graphics, this will force a new conversion:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
\epstopdfsetup{suffix=-\SourceExt-converted-...
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How can I intercept postscript instructions in a file loaded with includegraphics?
For psfrag, tex doesn't access the file at all (except optionally looks to find a %%BoundingBox comment. It works by loading a PostScript header that redefines (within the scope of the EPS) the ...
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How to set the title of the generated Postscript® file from within the source LaTeX file?
No, it's not possible. YES, IT IS! (though not from within LaTeX)
Akira Kakuto made a change to dvips that adds a -title option to the command line that sets the string after %%Title:
if (*...
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tikzpicture won't render 'usable' PS code
This is a bug in PGF. Unfortunately, it has been introduced right before the release of the last stable -- apparently in the middle of our final tests such that it passed unnoticed.
Please do not use ...
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Are Knuth's fonts searchable in pdf yet?
The fix for this would be for Latin Modern to be updated to match the preferred shapes, and to use it in an up-to-date TeX variant such as xe(la)tex or lua(la)tex.
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Why Latex compiler seems to be bound to PostScript?
Of the three bullet points only the middle one is correct. Classic TeX produces DVI output. As the name implies, DVI files are device independent and not tied to PostScript.
The DVI file just ...
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`latex` and `pdflatex` produce different colors given the same TikZ picture
This is basically a bug in the default PGF backend driver for DVI (pgfsys-dvips), and as such, it should be reported using https://sourceforge.net/p/pgf/bugs/.
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Print to EPS file in Windows 10
Late to the party this side but thought I would add in my solution in case anyone still needs it. Ran into the same problem you did on windows 10 as I couldn't work out how to print EPS files. This is ...
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TeXStudio and GSview problem: file .ps does not exist
This topic is quite old, but I just had the same issue and found a solution.
For some reason, an update changed the "Default Viewer" in Options > Configure TeXstudio > Build. I simply copied the line ...
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How to write PostScript commands for "calculation" and "intersection" in the following problem?
Given is the point P0(x0,y0) on the parabola. The slope is given by the derivation. The slope of the line P0-Mcircle is the negative inverse: -1/(2ax0).
The origin of the circle is O(x0+Delta,radius)...
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How do I fix Package pdftex.def Error with overleaf?
Renaming the PostScript file to support.vector.eps and commenting off \usepackage{auto-pst-pdf} seem to fix the problem:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[margin=3cm,a4paper]{geometry}
\usepackage{...
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trying to diagnose postscript printing problem on lyx/mactex on macOS Monterey
MacOS prints by first converting the print job to a pdf file. Then it looks at the printer. If the user has a postscript printer, macOS converts the pdf file to a postscript file and sends that to the ...
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TeXStudio and GSview problem: file .ps does not exist
I have solve in this way:
TeXStudio -> Menu -> Options -> Restore Default Settings...
Unfortunately, in this way I can not say you where is the problem.
Thanks.
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Is it possible to build a table with strings of dingbats instead of horizontal rules?
A modified \dingfill could do:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{pifont}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\xdingfill}[2][]{%
\leavevmode\cleaders\...
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How to modify postscript file to use the same font as the main document
Lorehead is right. You can change lines 297 and 298 of your PostScript file to:
/MinionPro-Regular getisofont /ISOLatin1-Helvetica exch definefont pop
/MinionPro-Bold getisofont /ISOLatin1-...
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Multiple inclusion of the same image gives huge PS file
Unlike pdftex and xetex, the dvips back-end does not detect multiple inclusion of the same file on its own, and the \special{psfile=...} is inserted over and over again into the DVI file, leading to ...
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`latex` and `pdflatex` produce different colors given the same TikZ picture
as latex/tikz gurus find out your problem is caused by bug, but as workaround until bug will be eliminated you can use my suggestion in the first comment:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\...
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