Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!bloom-beacon!SUN.COM!swoodhead From: swoodhead@SUN.COM (Simon Woodhead) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Running a dvi previewer on an X windows terminal Message-ID: <8908180346.AA11873@sunaus.sun.oz> Date: 18 Aug 89 18:44:54 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 35 Please reply direct to Isaac Balbin at the address below, or to the comp.windows.x newsgroup / xpert mailing list. ----- Begin Included Message ----- >From news@sunaus Tue Aug 8 11:22:36 1989 Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Running a dvi previewer on an X windows terminal Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 21 We are looking at a 16" NCD X window, configured with 3 Mb. We have found that xdvi and texx both seem to die if the file is more than say 6 pages or even for a short file if you try to magnify. We are using the normal 300dpi cmr fonts. Should we be using the 85dpi fonts, or is the thing scaled at the server end before it gets to the X terminal and so you would expect no change in the "falling over" rate because the bit maps are shrunk already? Does anyone use an X terminal to preview TeX and find the performance acceptable? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Isaac Balbin, Department of Computer Science, ACSNET: isaac@goanna.oz Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, JANET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uk.ac.ukc GPO BOX 2476 V, ARPA: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uunet.uu.net Melbourne, 3001, CSNET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@australia AUSTRALIA UUCP: ...!uunet!goanna.oz.au!isaac Phone: +61 3 660 2803 BITNET: isaac%goanna.oz.au@relay.cs.net Fax : +61 3 663 2764 EARN: isaac%goanna.oz.au@uk.ac.rl.earn ----- End Included Message -----