angst@cs.uq.oz.au (Andrew Moran) (05/05/91)
I expect this is mentioned in the docs but my German is limited to "beer" and "stein" so I found it difficult to make much sense of them. Quite regularly, ShowDVI quits (most gracefully) without showing the dvi file. The log file tells me that the problem was a division by zero error. This happened once when I had two other windows up; when I closed one, ShowDVI didn't get this error. However, it still gets this problem with some dvi files every when there is only one other window. FYI, I'm running KS 36.141, WB 36.68 on an A3000/25/40 with standard memory size. Cheers to the authors. ShowDVI is a very good looking program, I prefer it to many other dvi previewers I have used (on Suns, both under Sunview and X). The only additions I would make would be to expand the user interface a little and to include more key-stroke accelerators. Andrew --------------- Lt. G: "If we do happen to stand on a mine, sir, what do we do ?" Capt. B: "Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet into the air and scatter oneself over a wide area." -- somewhere no man's land, "Blackadder Goes Forth" ---------------
gefrank@sdrc.COM (Frank Glandorf) (05/06/91)
I down loaded Pastex from ab20 but can't get showdvi to work. The program says something about catching a guru. The program dviprint claims it is unable to find fonts (for the `story' example) cmbx10, cmsl10 and cmr10. These fonts are under tex:fonts/*.tfm. Is there something I've missed in the installation? I'm using an A1000 with 2meg and amigados 1.3. -Frank
hessmann@r2d2.fmi.uni-passau.de (Georg Hessmann) (05/06/91)
In article <933@sdrc.COM> gefrank@sdrc.COM (Frank Glandorf) writes: > > >I down loaded Pastex from ab20 but can't get showdvi to >work. The program says something about catching a guru. >The program dviprint claims it is unable to find fonts >(for the `story' example) cmbx10, cmsl10 and cmr10. >These fonts are under tex:fonts/*.tfm. DVIprint (and ShowDVI) uses pk-fonts. The tfm-files are only a font description for ini/virtex. The drivers uses the fonts in the TeX:pk directory (or TeX:fontlib). Within the PasTeX1.2a distribution there are only *some* previewer fonts and no printer fonts. You will need to copy the pk fonts from someone. Or you can install metafont on your Amiga and copy the CallMF_0.82.lzh file from the ftp-server ftp.uni-passau.de /pub/amiga/tex. There are ARexx scripts, which generate all missing fonts for you. ShowDVI don't work? Please sent me the showdvi.log file. >Is there something I've missed in the installation? >I'm using an A1000 with 2meg and amigados 1.3. >-Frank Georg. -- hessmann@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de hessmann@unipas.uucp
tomb@hplsla.HP.COM (Tom Bruhns) (05/07/91)
gefrank@sdrc.COM (Frank Glandorf) writes: >I down loaded Pastex from ab20 but can't get showdvi to >work. The program says something about catching a guru. >The program dviprint claims it is unable to find fonts >(for the `story' example) cmbx10, cmsl10 and cmr10. >These fonts are under tex:fonts/*.tfm. > >Is there something I've missed in the installation? >I'm using an A1000 with 2meg and amigados 1.3. >-Frank ---------- Very similar to my own configuration. I followed the installation procedure as documented and had no problem. On fonts: do you have them in the resolution required by the printer? If you have added new font directories, have you told it about them? (I'm still a novice myself--not as much as I was two months ago, but still a novice. I may have that wrong, but I think you have to tell it about new directories.) Hmmm. Actually, it looks like you may be missing something if you are trying to use it the way the authors have it set up: under tex:fonts, you need subdirectories for each resolution. And you need a huge pile of fonts by the time you count all the resolutions for printer (draft and final) and previewer, for use with various magsteps and point sizes... The fonts with the distribution just get you started and longing for more.