dna@fredholm.math.psu.edu (Douglas N. Arnold) (09/27/90)
I have recently started using OpenWindows on a Sun SPARCstation and am in dire need of a TeX dvi file previewer. I was quite happy with dvitool under SunView and can run it using the X/NeWS server's compatibility mode, but that this quite awkward. What are other people using? What are my options? Thanks. -- Douglas N. Arnold dna@math.psu.edu Dept. of Mathematics, Penn State Univ. (814) 865-0246
cook@sgi.com (Doug Cook) (09/28/90)
In article <Fd=it#b2@cs.psu.edu> dna@fredholm.math.psu.edu (Douglas N. Arnold) writes: >I have recently started using OpenWindows on a Sun SPARCstation and am >in dire need of a TeX dvi file previewer. I was quite happy with >dvitool under SunView and can run it using the X/NeWS server's >compatibility mode, but that this quite awkward. > >What are other people using? What are my options? Thanks. I believe OpenWindows comes with a PostScript previewer; the one I've seen is quite good. You should have the ability to convert your dvi files to PostScript, since that's what most printers use. Then just preview the PostScript file. -Doug Doug Cook |" ...hello honey... i hope i didn't Video Group, Advanced Systems Division | wake you up, but i had to hear your Silicon Graphics, Inc. | voice... i'm standing in another Mountain View, CA | phone booth... somewhere on the | moon..." -Adrian Belew
jac@gandalf..llnl.gov (James Crotinger) (10/02/90)
In article <1990Sep27.220249.21156@odin.corp.sgi.com> cook@sgi.com (Doug Cook) writes: > >I believe OpenWindows comes with a PostScript previewer; the one I've >seen is quite good. You should have the ability to convert your dvi files >to PostScript, since that's what most printers use. Then just preview >the PostScript file. Pageview does work nicely with the output from dvips, and will even show psfig figures, of course. However it is not nearly as fast as using xdvi, one of the available X-based .dvi previewers. Jim -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- James A. Crotinger Lawrence Livermore Nat'l Lab // The above views jac@gandalf.llnl.gov P.O. Box 808; L-630 \\ // are mine and are not (415) 422-0259 Livermore CA 94550 \\/ necessarily those of LLNL.
terry@rottie.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull) (10/02/90)
cook@sgi.com (Doug Cook) writes: >In article <Fd=it#b2@cs.psu.edu> dna@fredholm.math.psu.edu (Douglas N. Arnold) writes: >>I have recently started using OpenWindows on a Sun SPARCstation and am >>in dire need of a TeX dvi file previewer. I was quite happy with >>dvitool under SunView and can run it using the X/NeWS server's >>compatibility mode, but that this quite awkward. >> >>What are other people using? What are my options? Thanks. >I believe OpenWindows comes with a PostScript previewer; the one I've >seen is quite good. You should have the ability to convert your dvi files >to PostScript, since that's what most printers use. Then just preview >the PostScript file. OpenWindows comes with pageview, which is indeed a nice PostScript previewer. Unfortunately, it is not as fast as xtex, nor does it have the capability of going to page n. If you want to do something as simple as change the character sizes, you have to edit the PostScript source. Not exactly convenient if you don't know PostScript. PageView also requires that you run xnews instead of the MIT server and xnews is bigger and slower than the MIT version. -- Terry Hull Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Kansas State University Work: terry@eece.ksu.edu, rutgers!ksuvax1!eecea!terry