I have used pdf (portable document format) for the viewable/printable form
of the files for the Math 203 home page because own can readily
download
a free viewer for many different computing platforms. The catch is that
the viewer will use about 5 megabytes of space on your hard disk (and maybe
more).
Many of the source files for this page are Latex files (ending in .tex). To
generate the pdf version one uses (if one is starting with woof.tex):
latex woof
dvips woof -o woof.ps
ps2pdf woof.ps woof.pdf
This presupposes that you have TeX installed on your machine and ghostscript
(version 5.01 or later) installed. Both packages are free. For at least
one of the pages, you will need to have installed xfig to get the dvips to
work. Also you need to have a properly installed version of TeX, including the
times style.
One problem with some of the pdf files is that TeX math fonts have been poorly
rendered. If you go back to the original .tex file and generate postscript
from it, you will get a better printout.
Note (possible temporary): postscript files can be viewed on a Macintosh
using "MacGS-5.01". See
this and
this for more information. You will need about 5 megabytes of free space
on your disk.