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4 Installing and using DviDvi with PasTeX

Things are a little bit more complicated using PasTeX. This is because PasTeX (ShowDVI and DVIprint, to be a little more precise) uses the informations about document-width and height contained in the DVI file to determine the size of RAM that is needed. Further it isn't possible to scale the magnification in a device-independent way. (For example you need to divide the number 180 by magstep(2) when printing on a Nec-P6 in draft-mode instead of the device-independent number 1000 from the example above.)

DviDvi satisfies our needs with the options `-sm', `-sw' and `-sh' here. The example above would look here as follows:

       `dvidvi -m 2:0(0.0,-0.75),1(7.3,-0.75) -sm -2 -sw 4'
       `	    infile.dvi outfile.dvi'

       `dviprint landscape on outfile.dvi'

Installing looks nearly the same as installing DviDvi for DviPS (Simply copy the program to whereever you want), except that the automatical font-generation needs to get a little bit enhanced. (We need to support magstep(-4) up to magstep(9) now instead of magstep(0) up to magstep(9).) This is done by replacing the original file `MakeTeXFont.rexx' with the file `PasTeX/MakeTeXFont.rexx' from the DviDvi-distribution.


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