vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera) (02/22/91)
I hope this is not a FAQ but I read them and didn't see it... I just installed TeX3.0 and xdvi and dvips and ... from labrea. xdvi seems to come configured to read 300dpi write-black fonts which are generated for our laserprinter. My question is will I get better screen displays if I tell xdvi to use write-white fonts? to use 72dpi fonts? (I think our monitors are approx 72dpi) Further, which mode_def should I use for generating these fonts? A couple of them mention Sun (this is for a bunch of Sun 3's) but is wasn't clear to me which one to choose. And lastly, if you use two fonts (one for the printer, one for the screen) do you hack xdvi to create the fonts when it needs them or have dvips generate both of them when it needs one or something else? hope at least some of that makes sense. James S. Vera | Internet |Standard Disclaimers Stanford University|vera@fanaraaken.stanford.edu|Blah Blah Blah Blah Bellcore |vera2@rigel.cc.bellcore.com |
jansteen@cwi.nl (Jan van der Steen) (02/23/91)
vera@fanaraaken.Stanford.EDU (James S. Vera) writes: [stuff deleted...] >xdvi seems to come configured to read 300dpi write-black fonts which >are generated for our laserprinter. My question is will I get better >screen displays if I tell xdvi to use write-white fonts? to use 72dpi >fonts? (I think our monitors are approx 72dpi) Maybe, but the quality of your previewer will be wourse :-). One of the nice things about xdvi is that it uses the very bitmaps that will be used to print your document (remember the mouse buttons). BTW. Bitmaps of different resolutions can be easily tested/used with xdvi by setting environment variables XDVIFONTS/XDVISIZES and applying the "-p <resolution>" option. >Further, which mode_def should I use for generating these fonts? A >couple of them mention Sun (this is for a bunch of Sun 3's) but is >wasn't clear to me which one to choose. Experimenting with a suitable mode_def for a low-resolution display might still be worthwhile however since previewing a PostScript version of the document (using Ghostscript for example) might give better results if the fonts used are scaled to the output device. I tried the "sun" mode_def but the results were disappointing. The bitmaps produced for cmr character "e" and "E": Character: 65 (e): 0 *** 1 2 * 3 * * 4 ** Character: 45 (E): 0 ****** 1 * * 2 * ** 3 **** 4 * * * 5 * * 6 * 7 Jan van der Steen -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jan van der Steen jansteen@cwi.nl Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI) Kruislaan 413, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands