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From: grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Dirk Grunwald)
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Subject: Re: Running a dvi previewer on an X windows terminal
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Date: 15 Aug 89 12:37:58 GMT
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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.