Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site uw-beaver Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!mtuxo!mtunh!mtung!mtunf!ariel!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!furuta From: furuta@uw-beaver (Richard Furuta) Newsgroups: net.text Subject: Re: TeX on average crts. Message-ID: <1346@uw-beaver> Date: Thu, 27-Jun-85 04:20:24 EDT Article-I.D.: uw-beave.1346 Posted: Thu Jun 27 04:20:24 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 28-Jun-85 01:29:48 EDT References: <3285@dartvax.UUCP> <212@sdcarl.UUCP> Reply-To: furuta@uw-beaver.UUCP (Richard furuta) Distribution: net Organization: U of Washington Computer Science Lines: 26 Summary: I have seen one program, written by folks at Ohio State University for Tops-20, that dumps DVI into a file. What they do is to round off the DVI file's notion of where the character goes to the resolution of the fixed width character set that they assume is being used to print out the file. If there already is a character in that position on the file page then they discard one or the other (I don't recall which). In other words, they throw away font and size distinctions. The result is a pretty jumbled up sequence with missing characters, etc., but it's vaguely readable and is useful when you're trying to figure out alignments and page breaks without printing an actual copy. If you set the DVI file with a fixed width type face, of course, things would probably work out pretty well. The other possibility would be to do something like David Fuchs' DVI to Epson driver on the PC. Scan through the DVI file, dumping characters when you see them. A useful extension would be to put in the line breaks. This'd allow you to at least read little parts of the DVI file. Both of these sound like they'd be potentially simple modifications of DVItype. What I really want is for someone to write me a screen previewer for the Macintosh. At that point, I'd claim that bitmapped screens *were* generally available for everyone and that these hacks didn't require more attention. --Rick