<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Herb and Ettore—</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Many thanks for these suggestions! That is a great help indeed.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Alan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Ettore Aldrovandi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu" target="_blank">ealdrov@mail.math.fsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">dvipdfm would convert dvi —> pdf (but see below for the MacTeX installation)<br>
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—Ettore<br>
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> On Nov 17, 2015, at 08:26, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Herbert Schulz <<a href="mailto:herbs@wideopenwest.com">herbs@wideopenwest.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Alan Bowen <<a href="mailto:bowenalan03@gmail.com">bowenalan03@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> I have a number of .dvi files created some 25 years ago using Plain TeX and Computer Modern which I want to convert to .pdf files. Any suggestions about what I need and how to do this will be greatly appreciated.<br>
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>>> So far as TeX goes, I have the ConTeXt standalone (aka the ConTeXt minimals).<br>
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>>> I am currently running Mac OSX 10.11.<br>
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>>> Alan<br>
>><br>
>> Howdy,<br>
>><br>
>> Go to <<a href="http://www.tug.org/mactex/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.tug.org/mactex/</a>>.<br>
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>> If you are really dedicated to using ConTeXt for your present documents go to the Smaller Download link and download and install BasicTeX.<br>
>><br>
>> If you would like to have a full TeX distribution (which includes ConTeXt) go to the MacTeX Download link and download and install MacTeX.<br>
>><br>
>> Good Luck,<br>
>><br>
>> Herb Schulz<br>
>> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br>
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> Howdy,<br>
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> Whoops... missed the DVI references. You should also install Ghostscript. Then convert via dvips->ps2pdf or dvipdf.<br>
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> Good Luck,<br>
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> Herb Schulz<br>
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)<br>
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