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- From: mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
- Subject: Re: DVI - WhAT Is IT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.173057.23499@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca>
- Organization: Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto
- References: <1992Dec17.170012.18600@uk03.bull.co.uk> <2108@scax18.pki-nbg.philips.de>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:30:57 GMT
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- In article <2108@scax18.pki-nbg.philips.de> user@pki-nbg.philips.de writes:
- >|> What is dvi? I am guessing its the intermediate dev indep form producved
- >|> by tex?
- >
- >first guess: right! (It's not so device-independent though. People prefer to
- >move source files between machines, rather than dvi s)
-
- I think that dvi files are actually quite device-independent. The
- biggest problem that I have encountered is that almost no two TeX
- installations have the same set of fonts in all the same magnifications.
- If the dvi file names a font you don't have, you're hosed. And then
- there's the small matter of files formatted for A4 paper which we don't
- have in North America... At least if you have the .tex files you can
- muck with this sort of detail until the document formats and prints
- properly.
-
- Marc R. Roussel
- mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca
-