samperi@marob.MASA.COM (Dominick Samperi) (06/30/88)
Are TeX pixel files device-dependent? Seems like they are since one must
purchase pixel files along with the device drivers (from PC TeX).
PC TeX does not supply the pixel files for SliTeX. How can one find
these pixel files for use with Preview? Thanks.
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(^ ell)vanroose@kulmath.uucp (Peter Vanroose) (07/05/88)
In article <325@marob.MASA.COM>, samperi@marob.MASA.COM (Dominick Samperi) writes: > Are TeX pixel files device-dependent? Seems like they are since one must > purchase pixel files along with the device drivers (from PC TeX). > PC TeX does not supply the pixel files for SliTeX. How can one find > these pixel files for use with Preview? Essentially, pixel files are *not* device-dependent. It is the task of the device driver (which transforms the .DVI file to printer-readable output) to read the pixel files, so it depends on the driver used, which pixel files it can manage. (For example, the BEEBE driver family can use .GF, .PK and .PXL pixel files.) So, just try out if your driver understands pixel files that are not delivered with it. There exist transformation programs to create pixel files from .GF files. These programs are named GFtoPK, GFtoPXL etc. The .GF files are output by METAFONT (along with a .TFM file). To use SliTeX without having the pixel files, you can do two things: 1) Create (or copy) them as described above. 2) Tell your DVI driver program that it substitutes the special SliTeX font files by ordinary TeX fonts (especially for a preview, this makes no much difference). For example, substitute LCMSS8 (and also ILCMSS8) by CMR8 (or by CMSS8). Peter Vanroose (VANROOSE@kulmath.UUCP) Department of Mathematics, K.U.Leuven Celestijnenlaan 200 B, B-3030 Leuven (Belgium) Tel. +32-16/200656 (ext. 3053)