[tex-k] (fwd) Bug#302435: tetex-bin: dvips info error

Hilmar Preusse hille42 at web.de
Sun Jan 3 00:44:45 CET 2010


Dear tex-k mailing list,

down here in the Debian bug tracking system we've got a bug report
about a broken web link in the dvips info file.
I had a look at all URLs in the document, replaced them if
replacements were found and commented/deleted if no replacements were
found. Note that I didn't do further proofreading.

Kind Regards,
  Hilmar

----- Forwarded message from "Andrew T. Young" <aty at mintaka.sdsu.edu> -----

From: Andrew T.Young <aty at mintaka.sdsu.edu>
Reply-To: Andrew T.Young <aty at mintaka.sdsu.edu>,
	302435 at bugs.debian.org
To: submit at bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#302435: tetex-bin: dvips info error
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 12:01:46 -0800 (PST)
Message-Id: <20050331200146.873C9EAFD at aty786.sdsu.edu>
X-Mailer: bug 3.3.10.1
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Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20011202-7.3
Severity: normal

The URL

	http://www.emrg.com/texpdf.html

listed in the info for dvips seems to be a broken link.  It just brings up
the main page for emrg.com.

----- End forwarded message -----

-- 
http://www.hilmar-preusse.de.vu/
-------------- next part --------------
--- dvips.texi.orig	2010-01-02 02:08:40.000000000 +0100
+++ dvips.texi	2010-01-03 00:40:28.101104900 +0100
@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@
 report a bug, see the file @file{kpathsea/BUGS} (@pxref{Bugs,,,
 kpathsea, Kpathsea}).  For solutions to Dvips-specific problems,
 @pxref{Debug options}.  Also see the Dvips home page at
- at url{http://www.radicaleye.com/dvips}.
+ at url{http://www.radicaleye.com/dvips.html}.
 
 Dvips does require some additional installation, detailed in the
 sections below.  Also, to configure color devices, @pxref{Color device
@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@
 @cindex Softkey fonts
 To support the basic PostScript font set, the recommended (and
 simplest) approach is to install the files at
- at url{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/lw35nfsx.zip}.
+ at url{http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/psfonts/ly1/lw35nfsx.zip}.
 This archive contains metrics, outlines, and bitmaps (for previewing)
 for the 35 de facto standard fonts donated by URW and the additional
 high-quality freely available PostScript fonts donated by Adobe,
@@ -314,12 +314,12 @@
 and render it on your monitor, or for another device (e.g., an Epson
 printer) that does not support PostScript, or in PDF format.  The latest
 version is available via @url{http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html}
-and @url{ftp://ftp.cs.wisc.edu/pub/ghost/aladdin/}.
+and @url{ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/}.
 
 @cindex GNU Ghostscript
 A somewhat older version of Ghostscript is available under the GNU
 General Public License, free to everyone.  You can get that from
- at url{ftp://prep.ai.mit.edu/pub/gnu/}.
+ at url{http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/gnu/index.htm}.
 
 @cindex Theisen, Tim
 @pindex ghostview
@@ -2924,8 +2924,8 @@
 first place are available from @file{@var{CTAN:}/support/hypertex}.  For
 CTAN info, @pxref{unixtex.ftp,,, kpathsea, Kpathsea}.
 
- at flindex @code{http://www.win.tue.nl/~dickie/idvi}
- at flindex @code{http://xxx.lanl.gov/hypertex}
+ at flindex @code{http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/java/idvi/}
+ at flindex @code{http://arxiv.org/hypertex/}
 @cindex Doyle, Mark
 @cindex Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
 @cindex Java DVI reader
@@ -2935,13 +2935,7 @@
 written by Mark Doyle and Tanmoy Bhattacharya as the @samp{dvihps}
 program. You can retrieve their software and additional documentation
 via the CTAN reference above.  You may also be interested in the Java
-previewer IDVI, available at @url{http://www.win.tue.nl/~dickie/idvi},
-and/or in @url{http://www.emrg.com/texpdf.html}, which describes
-the process of making PDF files from TeX files in more detail.
-
-Mail archives for the original project are at
- at url{http://math.albany.edu:8800/hm/ht/}.
-
+previewer IDVI, available at @url{http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/java/idvi/}.
 
 @menu
 * Hypertext caveats::       Font quality, missing character psi.
@@ -3039,11 +3033,11 @@
 @url{http://www.utdallas.edu/~cantrell/online/543e.html}
 @end display
 
-You may also want to check ``Notes on converting (La)@TeX{} documents
-to robust PDF using Rokicki's dvips and Acrobat Distiller'' by Timothy
-P. Van Zandt:@*
- at url{http://www.emrg.com/texpdf.htmlhttp://zandtwerk.insead.fr/tex2pdf.html}.
-
+ at c passage commented b/c related URI oudated
+ at c You may also want to check ``Notes on converting (La)@TeX{} documents
+ at c to robust PDF using Rokicki's dvips and Acrobat Distiller'' by Timothy
+ at c P. Van Zandt:@*
+ at c @url{http://zandtwerk.insead.fr/tex2pdf.html}.
 
 @node Hypertext specials
 @subsection Hypertext specials
@@ -3076,11 +3070,13 @@
 possibly extended with a @samp{#@var{type}. at var{string}} construct,
 where @var{type} is @samp{page}, @samp{section}, @samp{equation},
 @samp{reference} (for bibliographic references), @samp{figure},
- at samp{table}, etc.  For example, 
- at smallexample
-\special@{html:<a href="http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~tim/ch1.dvi#equation.1.1">@}
- at end smallexample
- at noindent is a link to equation (1.1) in an example document by Tim Murphy.
+ at samp{table}, etc.
+ at c commented (broken example link)
+ at c For example, 
+ at c @smallexample
+ at c \special@{html:<a href="http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~tim/ch1.dvi#equation.1.1">@}
+ at c @end smallexample
+ at c @noindent is a link to equation (1.1) in an example document by Tim Murphy.
 
 @cindex URL, definition
 See the URL @url{http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Addressing/Addressing.html}
@@ -3215,9 +3211,11 @@
 @cindex afm files
 @flindex .afm @r{Adobe metric files}
 Each Postscript font has an @dfn{Adobe font metrics} (@samp{.afm})
-file. These files are plain text, so you can inspect them easily.  You
-can get AFM files for Adobe's fonts from
- at url{ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/Fonts/AFMs}.
+file. These files are plain text, so you can inspect them easily.
+
+ at c passage commented b/c related URI oudated
+ at c You can get AFM files for Adobe's fonts from
+ at c @url{ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/Fonts/AFMs}.
 
 @item 
 @cindex tfm files


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