Dvips has its own configuration files: a file `config.ps' for
sitewide defaults, and a file `config.printer' for each
printer (output device). Since these are site-specific, make
install does not create them; you must create them yourself.
(These Dvips configuration files are independent of the Kpathsea onfiguration file `texmf.cnf' (see section `Config files' in Kpathsea).
Dvips configuration files contents and searching are described fully in section Dvips configuration files. The simplest way to create a new configuration file is to copy and modify the file `dvipsk/contrib/config.proto', seasoning with options to your taste from section Dvips configuration files. Here is `config.proto' for your reading pleasure:
% Prototype Dvips configuration file. % How to print, maybe with lp instead lpr, etc. o |lpr % Default resolution of this device, in dots per inch. D 600 % Metafont mode. (This is completely different from the -M command-line % option, which controls whether MakeTeXPK is invoked.) Get % `ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/modes.mf' for a list of mode names. This mode % and the D number above must agree, or MakeTeXPK will get confused. M ljfour % Memory available. Download the three-line PostScript file: % %! Hey, we're PostScript % /Times-Roman findfont 30 scalefont setfont 144 432 moveto % vmstatus exch sub 40 string cvs show pop showpage % to determine this number. (It will be the only thing printed.) m 3500000 % Correct printer offset. You can use testpage.tex from the LaTeX % distribution to find these numbers. Print testpage.dvi more than once. O 0pt,0pt % Partially download Type 1 fonts by default. Only reason not to do % this is if you encounter bugs. (Please report them to % <tex-k@mail.tug.org> if you do.) j % Also look for fonts at these resolutions. R 300 600 % With a high resolution and a RISC cpu, better to compress the bitmaps. Z % Uncomment these if you have and want to use PostScript versions of the % fonts. %p +cmfonts.map %p +lafonts.map %p +cyrfonts.map %p +eufonts.map % You will also want definitions for alternative paper sizes -- A4, % legal, and such. Examples in `contrib/papersize.level2' and % `contrib/papersize.simple'.
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