Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!hsdndev!husc6!husc6.harvard.edu!smith From: smith@zeus.harvard.edu (Steven Smith) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: DVI previewers supporting virtual fonts? Message-ID: Date: 11 Feb 91 14:47:06 GMT References: <1991Feb10.214814.24672@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Harvard Robotics Lab, Harvard University Lines: 27 In-reply-to: tml@tik.vtt.fi's message of 11 Feb 91 14:57:08 GMT Tor Lillqvist writes: > 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. This method is, unfortunately, inadequate. The program dvicopy ``converts a DVI file referencing VF fonts into a DVI file which does not contain such references'' according to the dvicopy.readme file. At some point, xdvi requires GF or PK files; therefore, to display PostScript fonts one must convert them to one of these formats. This issue will resolve itself when someone writes the X-Windows equivalent of Rokicki's dvips. None of the existing display programs can claim equivalence. xtex displays X11 fonts, but cannot read GF or PK files (an unnecessary defect and inconvenience, in my opinion), and xdvi does the latter, but not the former. The ultimate xdvi/xtex program should have both these capabilities, plus a dvipage-like low pass filter for a quality display. Steven Smith smith@sandalphon.harvard.edu