PostScript and LaTex/Tex files

[Bill Pardue]

We're trying to provide links to relevant e-journals for 
sci/tech...and there are a number of good ones.  One problem, 
however, is that a lot of them post the articles in .ps or LaTex/Tex 
format. ( By the way, our browsers in the library run on Windows 
boxes).  We use Ghostview for Windows for most .ps files, but it 
doesn't work for all of them.  It also has problems printing properly 
through the default windows printer (cropping off the tops of 
characters and sticking them on the bottoms).  This means that when a 
patron wants to print a .ps article in the library, he/she has to go 
through a 4-step print dialog, one part of which asks them to select 
the actual printer port--and they usually guess wrong.  Signage is 
pretty much ignored (as is the message on our e-journals page).

LaTex/TeX is another problem altogether.  We really haven't found any 
good windows viewers for this.

Anyway, with the amount of material out there in these formats, I'm 
surprised there aren't any decent helper apps out there for viewing 
and printing easily.  Does anyone have any suggestions/experiences?

Thanks in advance!

--Bill Pardue

PS (If you'd like to look at our current e-journal listing...it's 
fairly short...check http://www.iit.edu/~library/ejournal.html)



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    Bill Pardue--Electronic Resources Librarian
    Galvin Library, Illinois Institute of Tech.
                Chicago, IL  60616
312-567-3615/312-567-5318 (fax) pardue at charlie.acc.iit.edu
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