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From: vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Question on xdvi and fonts
Summary: which fonts should I tell xdvi to use
Keywords: xdvi, fonts, which ones
Message-ID: <260@fanaraaken.stanford.edu>
Date: 22 Feb 91 08:43:39 GMT
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I hope this is not a FAQ but I read them and didn't see it...

I just installed TeX3.0 and xdvi and dvips and ... from labrea.

xdvi seems to come configured to read 300dpi write-black fonts which
are generated for our laserprinter.  My question is will I get better
screen displays if I tell xdvi to use write-white fonts?  to use 72dpi
fonts? (I think our monitors are approx 72dpi)

Further, which mode_def should I use for generating these fonts?  A
couple of them mention Sun (this is for a bunch of Sun 3's) but is
wasn't clear to me which one to choose.

And lastly, if you use two fonts (one for the printer, one for the
screen) do you hack xdvi to create the fonts when it needs them or
have dvips generate both of them when it needs one or something else?

hope at least some of that makes sense.

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