isaac@goanna.oz (Isaac Balbin) (08/04/89)
We are looking at a 16" NCD X window, configured with 3 Mb. We have found that xdvi and texx both seem to die if the file is more than say 6 pages or even for a short file if you try to magnify. We are using the normal 300dpi cmr fonts. Should we be using the 85dpi fonts, or is the thing scaled at the server end before it gets to the X terminal and so you would expect no change in the "falling over" rate because the bit maps are shrunk already? Does anyone use an X terminal to preview TeX and find the performance acceptable? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isaac Balbin, Department of Computer Science, ACSNET: isaac@goanna.oz Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, JANET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uk.ac.ukc GPO BOX 2476 V, ARPA: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uunet.uu.net Melbourne, 3001, CSNET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@australia AUSTRALIA UUCP: ...!uunet!goanna.oz.au!isaac Phone: +61 3 660 2803 BITNET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@relay.cs.net Fax : +61 3 663 2764 EARN: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uk.ac.rl.earn
grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) (08/15/89)
The fonts are scaled by the client & the server never sees anything but the reduced versions. Using 85dpi fonts will only make things more legible. You might try texx2; someone (@ UC Irvine?) told me they had it running on X terminals. That shouldn't crash your server because I think that fonts are store more compactly than the pixmaps were. For example, previewing my thesis causes the server to grow to about 1.2Mb on a Sun. This could be made smaller by only loading the fonts used on that particular page, but the silly font cache policy that appears to exist on the Sun makes that slow.
swoodhead@SUN.COM (Simon Woodhead) (08/16/89)
Please reply direct to Isaac Balbin at the address below, or to the comp.windows.x newsgroup / xpert mailing list. ----- Begin Included Message ----- From news@sunaus Tue Aug 8 11:22:36 1989 Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Running a dvi previewer on an X windows terminal Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 21 We are looking at a 16" NCD X window, configured with 3 Mb. We have found that xdvi and texx both seem to die if the file is more than say 6 pages or even for a short file if you try to magnify. We are using the normal 300dpi cmr fonts. Should we be using the 85dpi fonts, or is the thing scaled at the server end before it gets to the X terminal and so you would expect no change in the "falling over" rate because the bit maps are shrunk already? Does anyone use an X terminal to preview TeX and find the performance acceptable? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isaac Balbin, Department of Computer Science, ACSNET: isaac@goanna.oz Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, JANET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uk.ac.ukc GPO BOX 2476 V, ARPA: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uunet.uu.net Melbourne, 3001, CSNET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@australia AUSTRALIA UUCP: ...!uunet!goanna.oz.au!isaac Phone: +61 3 660 2803 BITNET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@relay.cs.net Fax : +61 3 663 2764 EARN: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uk.ac.rl.earn ----- End Included Message -----
swoodhead@SUN.COM (Simon Woodhead) (08/19/89)
Please reply direct to Isaac Balbin at the address below, or to the
comp.windows.x newsgroup / xpert mailing list.
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>From news@sunaus Tue Aug 8 11:22:36 1989
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Running a dvi previewer on an X windows terminal
Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia
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We are looking at a 16" NCD X window, configured with 3 Mb.
We have found that xdvi and texx both seem to die if the file
is more than say 6 pages or even for a short file if you try to
magnify. We are using the normal 300dpi cmr fonts.
Should we be using the 85dpi fonts, or is the thing scaled at the
server end before it gets to the X terminal and so you would expect
no change in the "falling over" rate because the bit maps are shrunk
already?
Does anyone use an X terminal to preview TeX and find the
performance acceptable?
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Isaac Balbin,
Department of Computer Science, ACSNET: isaac@goanna.oz
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, JANET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uk.ac.ukc
GPO BOX 2476 V, ARPA: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uunet.uu.net
Melbourne, 3001, CSNET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@australia
AUSTRALIA UUCP: ...!uunet!goanna.oz.au!isaac
Phone: +61 3 660 2803 BITNET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@relay.cs.net
Fax : +61 3 663 2764 EARN: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uk.ac.rl.earn
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