Newsgroups: comp.archives Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!ox.com!emv From: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Subject: [tex] Re: DVI previewers supporting virtual fonts? Message-ID: <1991Feb12.003112.8575@ox.com> Followup-To: comp.text.tex Sender: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) Reply-To: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Organization: Technical Research Centre of Finland, Laboratory for Information References: <1991Feb10.214814.24672@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Tue, 12 Feb 1991 00:31:12 GMT Approved: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) X-Original-Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Archive-name: tex/dviware/dvicopy/1991-02-11 Archive: tik.vtt.fi:/pub/tex/dvicopy.* [130.188.52.2] Original-posting-by: tml@tik.vtt.fi (Tor Lillqvist) Original-subject: Re: DVI previewers supporting virtual fonts? Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) I. Lee Hetherington writes: Unfortunately, xdvi doesn't support virtual fonts. Anybody modify xdvi to support virtual fonts? Any other previewers support virtual fonts? Use the dvicopy program by P Breitenlohner. It copies a dvi file ``expanding'' characters from virtual fonts to the corresponding non-virtual font characters, movements and rules. I have heard that it is available as part of the web2c package. Or get it by ftp from here (tik.vtt.fi:~ftp/pub/tex/dvicopy.{web.Z,ch}. -- Tor Lillqvist, working, but not speaking, for the Technical Research Centre of Finland