[Mac OS X TeX] Dvi and postscript previewers

[Adrian Heathcote]

Tom ---where is ~/bin? I can see no such folder in my home directory. Is 
it necessary to create it, or is it deeper in one of the other folders?

Adrian Heathcote


On Tuesday, January 1, 2002, at 07:33 PM, Tom Kiffe wrote:

> The dvi and postscript previewers, MacDvi and MacGhostView, are now
> available as programs which fully integrate with teTeX and ghostscript.
> In fact, they require that teTeX and ghostscript 6.01 or later be 
> installed. Macdvi will use the teTeX texmf tree to load tfm, vf, and pk 
> files and
> will call mktexpk for the automatic generation of pk fonts. MacGhostView
> will call gs to do any necessary file conversions. Included with these
> two programs is a new version of CMacTeX. This version calls the tex,
> pdftex, dvips, gs, etc, binaries distributed with teTeX to do file
> conversions. It is basically a shell program that gives the user a
> graphical interface to TeX which is quite different than TeXShop.
> The whole package is only 1.5 MB and can be downloaded from 
> http://www.kiffe.com/tex/programs/misc-tex.sit.bin. Installation
> instructions are included. The programs have been tested only under
> OS 10.1.2.
>
> These antiquated Carbon programs require a HFS+ file system and will be
> of no interest to NeXT and unix purists. Neither MacDvi nor
> MacGhostView require the X Window System. Besides displaying postscript
> files, MacGhostView can perform such obsolete tasks as adding a PICT
> preview to an eps file and saving a postscript page as a PICT image.
> MacDvi can use the Postscript versions of the CM and AMS fonts for
> previewing on OS X just as similar programs used these fonts on
> OS 8 and 9 with Adobe Type Manager.
>
> Happy New Year,
>
> Tom
>
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