Many thanks to Juan Gallego <juan_at_hep.physics.mcgill.ca> :
> On Mon, 22 Jan 1996, Magali BERNARD wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > After compiling ghostview/tex/latex... I tried to get "files.ps"
> > from "files.texi" providing in various softwares. It works well
> > except one thing :
> >
> > Loading these "files.ps" with ghostview does not show the page
> > numbers in the middle column besides menus, the only solution
> > to show a page is to repeat "Next page".
>
> I assume that to convert the dvi file into postscript you used dvips. For
> mostly historical reasons, dvips strips structured comments from the PS
> file since they used to confuse older PS interpreters/printers. Current
> versions of ghostscript/ghostview rely on these very same comments to get
> paging information. In order to have dvips include structured comments,
> use the -N0 switch:
>
> dvips -N0 <the rest of your switches> file.dvi
>
> Also, if you want structured comments to be the default, there is an
> entry in the configuration files (<your_dvips_library_path>/config.ps)
> that contains lines similar to:
>
> % Too-smart spoolers and/or printers get confused.
> % Our LJ4 gets `22 Error' (inconsistently) from the structured comments.
> N
>
> Just change the N to N0.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Juan Gallego
> Little ({sys|net}{admin|programmer|hacker}) Boss
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Received on Mon Jan 22 1996 - 15:51:04 NZDT