[comp.text.tex] previewer for ibm pc

simon@zeus.ee.uwa.oz.au (Simon Glenister) (11/02/90)

Is there a previewer for tex that will run on an ibm pc under
micro soft windows that is similar to something like texx or 
texsun?  We could get a machintosh to do the job but to put 
ARPA/berkeley sevices on a mac is very expensive, where as an
ibm pc can be hooked to the ethernet far more cheaply.
 So the problem is that I want a pc that can preview tex output
at the level of texx or texsun, which a mac can do (this is the 
primary requirement), and is able to be put on the ethernet 
inexpensively (secondary requirement).

jng@m.cs.uiuc.edu (11/02/90)

I have being using "dvimswin" -- the window version of "dvivga" , it is
available in terminator.cc.umich.edu and mirror(128.252.135.4).

I have it installed on an AT and a compaq 386, the program will run in
windows 2.11 and windows 3.0, the only complain is I have to wait a while
for window to start up and run the previewer. Once the previewer is loaded,
the scroll and previewing is pretty fast even on a 12Mhz AT.
Oh, I should tell you that this previewer use the same fonts file as dvivga,
and dvivga has around 9 Mbytes of fonts in those archive site!

You may look at yet another previewer called dview31. It is faster in loading
and previewing, but it does not run in windows.

--Joseph Ng--
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
jng@cs.uiuc.edu

koen@prisma.cv.ruu.nl (Koen Vincken) (11/05/90)

In <69100011@m.cs.uiuc.edu> jng@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:


>I have being using "dvimswin" -- the window version of "dvivga" , it is
>available in terminator.cc.umich.edu and mirror(128.252.135.4).
> ...(stuff deleted)...
>You may look at yet another previewer called dview31. It is faster in loading
>and previewing, but it does not run in windows.
>
>--Joseph Ng--
>University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
>jng@cs.uiuc.edu

Since this is quite a large ftp site, one might not want to look at the
ls-lR.Z file. I did, and these directories might be useful for anyone who
wants to ftp `dvimswin' and `dview31':

/usenet/comp.binaries.ibm.pc/volume7/dvimswin
/mirrors/msdos/tex

Hope this saves time.

Koen Vincken - koen@cv.ruu.nl