Printers with resolutions other than 300 dpi are also supported, even if they have different resolutions in the horizontal and vertical directions. High resolution output is supported for typesetters, including an option that compresses the bitmapped fonts so that typesetter virtual memory is not exhausted. This option also significantly reduces the size of the PostScript file and decoding in the printer is very fast. If a font cannot be generated, a scaled version of the same font at a different size can be used instead, although dvips will complain loudly about the poor aesthetics of the resulting output. One of the most important features is the support of virtual fonts, which add an entirely new level of flexibility to TeX. Virtual fonts are used to give dvips its excellent PostScript font support, handling all the font remapping in a natural, portable, elegant, and extensible way.
Source is provided and freely distributable, so adding a site-specific feature is possible.
Adding such features is made easier by the highly modular structure of the program. There is really no reason to use another driver, and the more people use dvips, the less time will be spent fighting with PostScript and the more time will be available to create beautiful documents. So if you don't use dvips on your system, get it today. Go to the first, previous, next , last section, table of contents .