UKTeX Digest Friday, 3 Sep 1993 Volume 93 : Issue 28 ``The UKTeX Digest is brought to you as a free, unfunded and voluntary service of the UK TeX Users Group and the UK TeX Archive.'' Today's Topics: {Questions & Answers}: DVI to (Acrobat) PDF driver Re: Metafont with bbding10 and callig15. help with 2 columns in LaTeX Administrivia: Moderators: Peter Abbott (Aston University) and David Osborne (University of Nottingham) Contributions: UKTeX@uk.ac.tex Administration, subscription and unsubscription requests: UKTeX-request@uk.ac.tex ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 11:22:21 -0500 From: "Ed.Garay" Subject: DVI to (Acrobat) PDF driver Is anyone working on a DVI to PDF driver for DOS, Unix or OS/2? PDF is the Portable Document Format, the Adobe Acrobat file format, based on the PostScript imaging model, that is capable of representing any PostScript page. If we could get our TeX documents in PDF format, then we could use one of the Acrobat viewers, like Acrobat Reader or Acrobat Exchange, to preview our documents with all the benefits of the Acrobat technology (e.g. font metric emulation, zooming, panning, searching, post-it-like annotations, etc). With Adobe Exchange, we could print PDF documents on PostScript AND EVEN on non-PostScript printers. This, of course, assumes that Adobe Acrobat is going to take off, which I believe it will, and that the Adobe Acrobat products are going to be commonplace and not expensive. Today, you can get Acrobat Exchange for Windows and the Mac for about $120, in the U.S. Acrobat Reader sells for about $50. Acrobat Distiller, which converts PostScript to PDF, sells for $600, but this wouldn't be needed if we had a DVI2PDF driver ;-) Adobe says these products will run on Windows, Mac, DOS and Unix (and OS/2 I hope), in that order. Also, last week I saw a thin (%180 page) PDF specs book published by Adobe, at a local bookstore. I would really like to hear your thoughts on the merits of a DVI2PDF driver. - --- Ed Garay ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1993 09:38:23 -0700 From: Rex Shudde <0024P%earn.navpgs@uk.ac.earn-relay> Subject: Re: Metafont with bbding10 and callig15. Mike Piff writes: > Both bbding10.mf (dingbats font) and callig15 (calligraphic font) give > error messages when run through metafont. Some of the dingbats are > misformed, though I have not examined the callig font closely enough to > see whether the problems there are serious. Since seeing this post I downloaded both bbding10.mf and callig15.mf and compiled them with the emTeX Metafont distribution. bbding10 compiled with absolutely no problems, and I do not see that any of the dingbats are misformed. bbding10 does contain quite a few non-Ascii characters and lines longer than 80 characters, which may not go through some gateways without truncation. I say this because I "trans-shipped" it to a friend. I received truncation messages upon sending it, and he had numerous diagnostics when he tried to compile it. I stripped all of the non-ascii characters from the file to create a new file. The new file generates all of the dingbats that the original file generated. One error message was obtained when compiling callig15, and that was a "strange turning path" message while generating character 87. Adding the line, turningcheck:=0; before the line input calligra; to callig15.mf eliminated the problem. Rex Shudde Bitnet: 0024p@navpgs Internet: 0024p@vm1.cc.nps.navy.mil ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1993 20:14:23 -0000 From: Joseph.Goguen@uk.ac.oxford.prg Subject: help with 2 columns in LaTeX I wonder if anyone out there could give me a little bit of help? I am writing something (a novel, in fact) which proceeds in 12 pt single column format until near the end, where it is supposed to switch to a 2 column format, with each column coming from a separate file that continuing page after page in that column; that is, the left column on page n will continue to the left column in page n+1, not to the right column on page n, which will come from the other file. It would be wonderful to have a style file to support this, as otherwise it would be an enormous pain to break the text into page size pieces, especially if there is any editing, which would require everything to be redone! Is there an existing style file for something like this? Would it be at all easy to make one? Support for a format like the following would be ideal: \documentstyle[12pt,2col]{article} \1col ... stuff in single column ... \2col \left{leftfilename} \right{rightfilename} \1col ... back to single column ... \2col ... etc. With many thanks, Joseph Joseph A. Goguen, Professor of Computing Science, Programming Research Group, University of Oxford, 11 Keble Road, Oxford OX1 3QD, United Kingdom. email: Joseph.Goguen@prg.ox.ac.uk [internet] -- usually also works in the UK, but if not, try Joseph.Goguen@uk.ac.ox.prg phone: 272567 [my office]; 272568 [secy]; 273838 [PRG office]; 273839 or 272582 [FAX]. 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