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From: helman@isl.Stanford.EDU (Jim Helman)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Looking for MicroVax X11 dvi previewer
Summary: X11 dvi previewer
Keywords: dvi tex xdvi texx
Message-ID: <311@isl.stanford.edu>
Date: 4 Oct 88 16:55:38 GMT
References: <88Oct3.154853edt.1052@sneezy.white.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: helman@isl.stanford.edu (Jim Helman)
Organization: Stanford University
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In article <88Oct3.154853edt.1052@sneezy.white.toronto.edu> cks@white.toronto.EDU (Chris Siebenmann) writes:
>
>I've tried texx, and it gets garbled pages on
>our 2000s (qvss displays) and X protocol errors on our 3200s (qdss
>displays).

We're using xdvi, ftp'd from charon.mit.edu courtesy of Mark Eichen
(eichen@athena.mit.edu). The version called xdvi11r3 runs quite nicely
on our Suns and Vaxen under X11R2, with the exception of our 3/260C.
On that machine the glyphs overpaint each other probably because of
the recently mentioned server problems with XPutImage on color
machines.  If you use xdvi on a Sun or Vax, you might want to change
the default shrink factor from 4 to 3 to make better use of the
large screen.

Some cautions: If no window manager is running, xdvi may not do an
initial paint of the window.  The version called xdvi11r2 doesn't work
with Suns or other BlackPixel=1 servers.

Despite these minor problems I've found xdvi to be big improvement in
over texx.  Xdvi can display half a page at reasonable resolution and
scroll to the other half of the page whereas texx displayed a full
page at poor resolution and made the user diddle with a slow spray can
zoomer to see anything legible.  Nevertheless, it would still be nice
to have the spray can for doing brief enlargements, when checking
alignment in equations and such.


Jim Helman
Department of Applied Physics
Stanford University