2002/08/14

Tomas Rokicki's dvips is the primary means by which TeX users produce
PostScript from dvi files.

dvips_man.dvi, .pdf, and .ps.gz contain the most recent version
(5.66a, 1997) of the dvips user manual in dvi, PDF, and gzipped 
PostScript format.


Note that dvips is no longer officially provided separately from the
teTeX releases. Users wishing to upgrade dvips have several options
to choose from.


Users of the commercial TeX systems (MicroPress, YandY, etc.) should
contact the vendor for updates.


The latest official versions of teTeX applications (including dvips)
can be found at:
ftp://dante.ctan.org/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX/current/distrib/sources/

The very latest "cutting edge" beta releases can be obtained from:
ftp://dante.ctan.org/pub/tex/systems/unix/teTeX-beta/

The files of interest are the source tar balls of the form 
"teTeX-src...tar.gz" and are about 10MB in size. 
Read the INSTALL file for compilation and installation instructions.
Note that users wishing to update individual applications (such as dvips)
should not run "make install", but can manually copy out just the desired
executables instead. See the appendices in the INSTALL file for more
details.

teTeX (UNIX) users might be able obtain some executables from the texlive
distribution: http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlprod/Master/bin/
(which also carries fptex executables for Windows systems)


fpTeX users can obtain updates from several places:
http://www.fptex.org/
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/fptex/
ftp://ftp.dante.de/pub/fptex/
The dante site usually carries the most recent versions of fptex.


MiKTeX users can obtain upgrades at the MiKTeX site:
http://www.miktex.org/
as well as the MiKTeX subdirectories (some of which may pertain to recent
beta releases) of the WIN32 system directories CTAN:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/


Users with rpm based systems (Red Hat Linux) can obtain RPM updates for
dvips at:
http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=tetex-dvips&submit=Search

Red Hat users should note that Red Hat's "RawHide" rpm releases are usually
more recent than the standard versions from Red Hat.


There is more information about manually upgrading LaTeX applications,
including dvips, in the testflow package documentation:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/supported/IEEEtran/


Support information for dvips can be found in the comp.text.tex newsgroup
as well as the more technical teTeX mailing list at:
http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/tex-k