[fptex] Windvi prints upside down

Fabrice Popineau Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr
Wed, 13 Mar 2002 19:31:51 +0100


* Philip Hirschhorn <psh@math.mit.edu> writes:

> I've searched through google's usenet archive and found a couple of
> people with this problem.  Alas, the explanation (on the windows
> programming groups) seems to be that windows expects bitmaps to be
> stored bottom row first, rather than top row first, and if you have
> a bitmap stored top row first it gets printed as I'm seeing it
> printed.

The real problem is that Windows allows both, but that some printer
drivers do not honour the upside-down ones.

I'll fix this for TeXLive 7 hopefully.

Fabrice