MacOSX-TeX Digest #256 - 03/06/02
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MacOSX-TeX Digest #256 - Wednesday, March 6, 2002
Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 1.16 Revisited
by "Matthias Damm" <m.damm at web.de>
I need some info
by "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
Re: [OS X TeX] I need some info
by "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
Re: [OS X TeX] I need some info
by "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
problem using gs 6.52 with teTeX
by "Olivier Larroche" <o.larroche at freesurf.fr>
Re: [OS X TeX] I need some info
by "Tom Kiffe" <tom at kiffe.com>
Re: [OS X TeX] problem using gs 6.52 with teTeX
by "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] TeXShop 1.16 Revisited
From: "Matthias Damm" <m.damm at web.de>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 18:46:00 +0100
At 10:17 Uhr -0800 02.03.2002, Richard Koch wrote:
> The release of 1.16 has not been smooth !#&&!.
I have recognized another small glitch:
If you mark text using the mouse and move the mouse downwards to the edge
of the window, TeXShop no longer scrolls further inside the document. The
same thing works fine if you move the mouse to the top edge of the window.
Yours,
Matthias
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Subject: I need some info
From: "Gerben Wierda" <sherlock at rna.nl>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 22:32:04 +0100
Can someone give me an example of a viewer (e.g. on Windows) that
directly displays DVI without moving through an intermediate format
(like PostScript)? I am writing the (extended) help info for my new
distribution packages.
G
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] I need some info
From: "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:05:24 +1100 (EST)
> Can someone give me an example of a viewer (e.g. on Windows) that
> directly displays DVI without moving through an intermediate format
> (like PostScript)? I am writing the (extended) help info for my new
> distribution packages.
Any DVI viewer does this; e.g. dviwin.exe ,
xdvi or xdvik under Unix or Windows
and whatever viewer came with TeX applications before pdfTeX
was developed.
On pre-OS X Macs, this includes OzTeX, Textures and CMacTeX.
Under Unix and windows, some of these viewers can send PostScript
or .eps files to Ghostscript, to handle drawing inside a specified
region. The viewers themselves do not interpret the PostScript code.
(Note that gsview is quite special in first requiring the .dvi to
have been converted to PostScript.
The reason for this is that full PostScript interpreters have always
been very expensive; either to build, or to license from Adobe.)
Hope this helps,
Ross
> G
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] I need some info
From: "William Adams" <wadams at atlis.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:59:45 -0500
Well, there's YAP, a dviviewer included with the MikTeX distribution
<www.miktex.org>.
I believe it's like to / based on xdvi for X Window setups
William
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Subject: problem using gs 6.52 with teTeX
From: "Olivier Larroche" <o.larroche at freesurf.fr>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 23:09:53 +0100
Hi
Since the version of gs which is included with teTeX for MacOSX (TeXshop) does
not have support compiled in for X11, I just downloaded the source code for
ghostscript (version 6.52, it seems) and compiled it myself (wow...) and
replaced gs6.01 with that. Now several (may be related) problems arise:
- running dvips on dvi files that I have and viewing the result with gs6.52
leads to very poor font rendering quality on screen; pdf versions of those ps
files obtained with ps2pdf (which, as far as I understand, runs gs as well)
display the same bad quality in Acrobat Reader 5, and in addition the display is
very slow. When I look at the font info in Acroread for those pdf files, I find
only "Type 3" fonts mentioned instead of good old Type 1 fonts.
- opening those pdf files within texshop or letting texshop make them itself
from dvi leads to a mostly blank page, with just a few characters spread here
and there on the screen...
- running xdvi (that I also compiled from source) on the same dvi files gives a
satisfactory display, which, as far as I understand, tends to mean that the
problem lies in dvips (that's the version that came with texshop, I only
replaced gs-related stuff).
Any idea about what is going on? I would very much like to keep an X11-enabled
gs around to display PS files, since I did'nt find any version of MacGS working
on MacOSX.
Thank you,
Olivier Larroche
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] I need some info
From: "Tom Kiffe" <tom at kiffe.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 16:53:05 -0600
For Mac OS X there is MacDviX which integrates easily with your TeXLive-teTeX
distribution. It has been updated recently and may even work on a UFS file
system, though I haven't been able to test this myself. It can be downloaded
from http://www.kiffe.com/textools.html.
--Tom
>Can someone give me an example of a viewer (e.g. on Windows) that directly displays DVI without moving through an intermediate format (like PostScript)? I am writing the (extended) help info for my new distribution packages.
>
>G
>
>
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Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] problem using gs 6.52 with teTeX
From: "Ross Moore" <ross at ics.mq.edu.au>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:59:22 +1100 (EST)
> Hi
>
> Since the version of gs which is included with teTeX for MacOSX (TeXshop) does
> not have support compiled in for X11, I just downloaded the source code for
> ghostscript (version 6.52, it seems) and compiled it myself (wow...) and
> replaced gs6.01 with that. Now several (may be related) problems arise:
> - running dvips on dvi files that I have and viewing the result with gs6.52
Does dvips -Ppdf <filename>
work for you ?
It's pretty standard for teTeX to have this printer-config file available.
> leads to very poor font rendering quality on screen; pdf versions of those ps
> files obtained with ps2pdf (which, as far as I understand, runs gs as well)
Another solution, which I use with LaTeX2HTML, is to configure gs to find
the Type 1 fonts itself, and not put *any* fonts into the .ps file created
by dvips, unless there is no Type 1 font available on the system.
This saves memory and disk space, and could even be slightly faster overall.
> display the same bad quality in Acrobat Reader 5, and in addition the display is
> very slow. When I look at the font info in Acroread for those pdf files, I find
> only "Type 3" fonts mentioned instead of good old Type 1 fonts.
> - opening those pdf files within texshop or letting texshop make them itself
> from dvi leads to a mostly blank page, with just a few characters spread here
> and there on the screen...
> - running xdvi (that I also compiled from source) on the same dvi files gives a
> satisfactory display, which, as far as I understand, tends to mean that the
> problem lies in dvips (that's the version that came with texshop, I only
> replaced gs-related stuff).
>
> Any idea about what is going on? I would very much like to keep an X11-enabled
> gs around to display PS files, since I did'nt find any version of MacGS working
> on MacOSX.
Hope the above comments help.
Ross Moore
>
> Thank you,
> Olivier Larroche
>
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