Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!flute.cs.uiuc.edu!grunwald From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Running a dvi previewer on an X windows terminal Message-ID:Date: 15 Aug 89 12:37:58 GMT References: <8908150414.AA00560@sunaus.sun.oz> Sender: news@brutus.cs.uiuc.edu Reply-To: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu Organization: University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Lines: 12 In-reply-to: swoodhead@SUN.COM's message of 15 Aug 89 19:13:36 GMT The fonts are scaled by the client & the server never sees anything but the reduced versions. Using 85dpi fonts will only make things more legible. You might try texx2; someone (@ UC Irvine?) told me they had it running on X terminals. That shouldn't crash your server because I think that fonts are store more compactly than the pixmaps were. For example, previewing my thesis causes the server to grow to about 1.2Mb on a Sun. This could be made smaller by only loading the fonts used on that particular page, but the silly font cache policy that appears to exist on the Sun makes that slow.