convert old dvi files

convert old dvi files

[Meer, Hans van der]

I need to convert some old dvi files into pdf.
One of the routes seems dvi --(dvips) ->- ps --> pdf
But dvips (taken from the ConTeXt-beta distribution) complains "Couldn't find header file: tex.pro"

Where can I find it? It doesn't seem present in the above mentioned distribution.
Or is there a ConTeXt mtxrun-call or such, that can do it directly?

Hans van der Meer




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Re: convert old dvi files

[Hans Hagen]

On 4/19/2016 10:32 PM, Meer, Hans van der wrote:
> I need to convert some old dvi files into pdf.
> One of the routes seems dvi --(dvips) ->- ps --> pdf
> But dvips (taken from the ConTeXt-beta distribution) complains "Couldn't find header file: tex.pro"
>
> Where can I find it? It doesn't seem present in the above mentioned distribution.
> Or is there a ConTeXt mtxrun-call or such, that can do it directly?

looks like it needs some prologue file (a blob of ps code), maybe you 
can find it on ctan ... it might depend on how the dvi was made (maybe 
the pro file is loaded via a special)

it makes not much sense to add very old dvps stuff to the distribution

Hans

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Re: convert old dvi files

[Aditya Mahajan]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Hans Hagen wrote:

> On 4/19/2016 10:32 PM, Meer, Hans van der wrote:
>
> it makes not much sense to add very old dvps stuff to the distribution

Some of these dvips support files are needed to use the pstricks module. 
See

https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2013/076165.html
https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2014/080256.html

Aditya
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Re: convert old dvi files

[Herbert Voss]

Am 19.04.2016 um 23:18 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> On 4/19/2016 10:32 PM, Meer, Hans van der wrote:
>>
>> it makes not much sense to add very old dvps stuff to the distribution
>
> Some of these dvips support files are needed to use the pstricks module.

If you want to use PSTricks with ConTeXt minimal you have
to copy a lot of files from the TeX distribution. This
doesn't really make sense. Using context and PSTricks from
TeXLive will work.
	
> See
>
> https://mailman.ntg.nl/pipermail/ntg-context/2013/076165.html

There is no more a \ifx!.. It is already changed in pstricks.tex
to \ifx !...

Herbert

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