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`config.ps' installation
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  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' (Note: Config files.
).

  Dvips configuration files contents and searching are described fully
in Note: Config 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 Note: Config 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'.