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- From: brox@corena.no (Bjorn P. Brox)
- Subject: Re: TeX previewers under AIX
- Message-ID: <Btqv66.Fv4@corena.no>
- Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 12:10:54 GMT
- References: <1992Aug28.072650.18390@aragorn.unibe.ch>
- Organization: CORENA A/S
- Keywords: TeX, previewers
- Lines: 55
-
- In article <1992Aug28.072650.18390@aragorn.unibe.ch> haedener@iacrs1.unibe.ch writes:
- >In article <714971640@macbeth.cs.duke.edu>, hsg@duke.cs.duke.edu (Henry Greenside) writes:
- >|> Can anyone recommend good public TeX previewers that
- >|> work under AIX? People here use xtex on Sun's but this
- >|> requires .PCF fonts that don't work on my RS/6000 340
- >|> with AIX 3.2.2, even after these fonts are stored in
- >|> the right spot.
- >|>
- >|> What I am looking for is a previewer that can rapidly
- >|> display one full page of LaTeX output, including
- >|> embedded Postscript graphics. Local magnification would
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- >
- > if you want this to be handled, but not interpreted (displayed),
- > use xdvi (from export.lcs.mit.edu);
- >
- > if you want PS graphics to be interpreted as well, you need a
- > PostScript interpreter (you will then be previewing .ps files,
- > however, and not .dvi files and the previewing task is not
- > specifically related to TeX anymore);
- > ghostview/ghostscript (from prep.ai.mit.edu) is reaonably good
- > at that.
- >
- This should be added to the aix-rs6000-faq:
-
- Initially, you don't need ghostview/ghostscript on a RS6000 with AIX3.2.
- Display PostScript (DPS) is a part of AIX, and should be used, unless
- you run on a X-station, because it is faster, and does a better job
- than GhostScript.
-
- Use xpreview (/usr/bin/xpreview) for displaying PostScript files, - it
- works like ghostview. You can also compile and use some of
- the DPS librarys and programs you get on the X11R5 contrib tape.
- Adobe System does also have a collection of DPS source code, included
- an EPSF preview. You can get it from the Adobe PostScript File Server
- ps-file-server@adobe.com -s 'send Programs DPS_Adv_CliLib.tar.Zba'
-
- The only drawback on DPS is:
- - The collection of fonts is small (/usr/lpp/DPS/fonts/outlines),
- but you can install as many fonts as you like in this directory..
- The big collection on fonts you can get from ftp.cica.indiana.edu
- (/pub/pc/win3/fonts/atm) can be used in DPS as well as in GhostScript.
-
- - It does only work on the console, not on X-stations (for now).
- - No zoom functions in xpreview (easy to add?).
-
- But: If you compile and install GhostScript, you should modify
- the Fontmap file to use the real PostScript Type1 fonts you have in the
- directory /usr/lpp/DPS/fonts/outlines, like this:
- /Times-Roman (/usr/lpp/DPS/fonts/outlines/Times-Roman) ;
-
-
- --
- Bjorn Brox, CORENA A/S, Baneveien 38, N-3600 Kongsberg, NORWAY
- E-mail : brox@corena.no, Phone : +47 3 73 66 11, Fax : +47 3 73 68 77
-