April 1994
Intermediate to advanced
522 pages
9h 12m
English
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Chapter 8. Printing
The emphasis in this book so far has been on getting TeX to process a document that contains all the desired typographic elements without error. The result of this effort is a DVI file.
The next step is translating the DVI file into a printed document. That is the focus of this chapter. Usually, you want to preview a document before you print it, but in many ways previewers are just a special kind of printer. The two do differ significantly, however, so we will discuss them separately. (Chapter 9, Chapter 9, describes previewers.)
This chapter explores the issues related to printing a DVI file. There are sections concerning the printing of fonts, the printing of pictures and figures, and descriptions of several kinds of drivers you can use to print TeX documents.
Printing Fonts
If you have a TFM file for a font, you can use that font in TeX. In fact, you can use that font at an arbitrary magnification in TeX, which means that you can use Courier at 13.4pt as easily as Computer Modern Roman at 10pt. Unfortunately, this ease of use does not imply that the resulting DVI file will be easy to print. It doesn't even imply that it will be possible to print the document. For example, if you request Courier at 13.4pt, but it is available in your printer only at 10pt and 12pt (and you have no other source for Courier), there is no way to print your document without distortion.
This section discusses the issues involved in getting the desired fonts to print from your DVI ...
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