{dvi} should be used for questions about the DeVice Independent format produced by the classic (la)tex compiler. If the question is about how to produce a dvi file with the classic (la)tex compiler then the tag {dvi-mode} should be used instead.
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border line disappeared after convert dvi to pdf
all, I have two graphs, which are draw using visio using black lines. Now the problem is whenever I generate dvi file (I am using subfigure), these two graphs look fine, but when I convert it to pdf ...
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pdf vs dvi vs postscript
I have a few questions regarding these three:
What is the difference between those three outputs?
Does it make any difference in how my code is processed or just how it
is displayed? What's ...
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Including spotcolors in dvi file
Is there any easy way to add spotcolor in a dvi file.
Using pdflatex this is possible, but I am searching for one which can achieve this using dvips driver.
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Automatically created Sub-folder
I've problem for days but I can't find the solution
After compiling, the DVI file couldn't opened. a folder named BUILD auto created on the same directory, it contains all the other files like .aux, ...
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How to increase the dpi without increasing the size of the picture via dvipng?
There is a useful tool in MikTeX called dvipng, which can transform dvi file to png file.
My question is about the useage of this command.
I usually use it with options
-T tight -D 120 -z 9 -bg ...
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Why does the latex command sometimes produces PDF output?
I have noticed that on some .tex files (making use of the graphicx and hyperref packages and PDF image files), the latex command produces PDF files instead of the expected DVI. How and when does this ...
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Macros in \special
I tried to compute a bounding box in LaTeX and pass the value on to dvisvgm via DVI specials. The resulting code (which I copy-and-pasted together from all over the internet) looked as follows:
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Latex or PdfLatex to generate DVI
I would like to generate DVI output using latex or pdflatex, it doesn't matter. First, I would like to mention that I run the following command to compile my document and it runs successfully -
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How to compare two dvi files?
Is there any tool that compares two dvi files. I would like to check if they are identical after I make some changes with source tex file.
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Pgfplots graphics tick label positioning issue with latex->dvi (but not with pdflatex->pdf)
I'm trying to plot an image file in a pdfplots axis. This is a minimal example (the files fig2a.eps and fig2a.png both contain the image that should be plotted):
\documentclass{standalone}
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vim-LaTeX does not run bibTeX
I'm on a Windows 7 machine, using the most recent version of vim-LaTeX with gVim. With all of the defaults, using \ll to compile my document only runs LaTeX once, when it should run multiple times, ...
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Problems with YAP freezing (MikTex) and other questions
I am running the latest x64 MikTex install on a Windows7-x64 machine. I use WinEdt7 as my front end. Yesterday, YAP started misbehaving. When I "Texify" anything, there are no errors but YAP freezes ...
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Weird message on dvi mode [closed]
I am getting the following message when I visualize in dvi mode:
MiKTeX Problem Report
Message: Some PostScript specials could not be rendered.
Data: Error: /undefined in H.S
Operand stack:
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page “x” may be too complex to print error
When I use the command dvipdf dummy.dvi to convert it from dvi to pdf, I get this error for some pages "x". Could anybody help me on this please?
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Preview in auctex on debian stable works in dvi mode, but fails on pdf mode
My auctex renders preview images on my debian stable system (6.0.6) if I set it to dvi mode, but it fails if I set auctex to pdf mode.
I assume there is either a mistake in my emacs configuration ...
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How to temporarily suppress image insertion when compiling?
There are some big images in my document and compiling is taking substantial amount of time. When compiling a tex file to a dvi (and subsequently ps and pdf), is there any way I can temporarily ...
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Rotated text failure with DVI
I'm using the following code:
\begin{tabular}{r|ccc}
&
\begin{rotate}{60} Property 1 \end{rotate} &
\begin{rotate}{60} Property 2 \end{rotate} &
\begin{rotate}{60} Property 3 ...
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Including graphics for both DVI and PNG
I'm asking a question is quite similar to this one (where I don't seem to be able to leave comments):
MikTex error for PNG images when trying to produce DVI
I'm producing a PDF document, but I'm ...
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LaTeX, dvipng and pipes
I am trying to create PNG images for each page in a LaTeX document on the fly. Since the startup time of LaTeX is the limiting factor for speed I tried the following approach using names pipes:
Bash ...
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Why powerdot on Mac (MacTeX 2011) is giving me a shrunk dvi output?
I'm trying to use the powerdot class that comes with TeX Live 2011 on Mac OS X Lion (MacTex). I'm using the sample file from docs, powerdot-example.tex. On the command line, I use
latex ...
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Yap viewer getting slow [closed]
I switched recently from MikTeX 2.5 to MiKTeX 2.9 version for latex compilation. I'm getting the below issue with Yap viewer.
Performance of Yap viewer is very slow in opening and browsing through ...
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Which DVI viewer on linux?
Today, to my complete disbelief, I realized evince on Gnome 3 is not able to open DVI files. Which readers do you suggest, and why? It would prefer gnome applications of course, but I don't mind ...
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Can we convert DVI or PostScript into TeX?
Basically that is the question - if we have a DVI file can we get on the base on it the original TeX file?
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Different color display between Adobe Reader and Yap
Today I have been realized some drawings for my scientific article using PGF. After converting the DVI to the PDF file I have noticed that my grid which has been supposed to be gray was somewhat ...
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Which TeX programs produce dvi output?
I know that tex and latex produce dvi output.
Are there any others?
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Why using pdf we get better results than using dvi?
In How can I auto adjust a equation to appear in the entire page? (Scale to equations, is this exist?) I asked how I could change the equation sizes.
Nothing seemed to work. But the problem was I was ...
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How to see figures prepared in …eps in Yap?
I have MikTEX2.8, WinEdt5.5, Windows XP
In the style article figure, presented in title.eps sometimes (unpredictable) after obtaining dvi file cannot be seen in Yap, they are seen in pdf (via ...
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Turning underlines OFF in hyperref
How do I get rid of all underlines under links in hyperref? I am processing to DVI, not PDF (because I am using some PS-specific graphing which is non-functional in pdflatex). I am specifying
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MiKTeX+WinEdt How to automatically close the current DVI file before opening a new one?
I am using the MiKTeX + WinEdt for my texing, and every time after click 'texify' WinEdt will automatically open the DVI file for me to preview. Then I usually edit the .tex file and compile again. ...
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How to open a LaTeX document where the mouse cursor points in DVI with Kile? (Inverse Search)
I think I have heard about that in somewhere but don't know where.
I'm using Kile and Okular on Ubuntu, so I appreciate a solution for it. (But I think it's not depends of Kile.) But other ideas are ...
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Is it possibile to report the baseline of a dvipng converted image without using preview-latex?
I'm compiling .tex with pdftex and to align some PNG images created with dvipng (I love it's speed), I need to use the --depth value from this utility. But as I can read, correct values are output ...
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Ghostscript problem
I'm trying to submit a LaTeX paper to Wiley ISMRW but get the following error:
************************************************************************
command: dvipdf MRM3.dvi
Command Ok
dvips: ...
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How do I combine hyperref and classicthesis without errors using (dvi)latex.
I'm trying to get this document to work using the latex command.
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage{subfig}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{classicthesis}%
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Margin changes in converting DVI to PDF
I have a 1 inch top margin in all the pages that I have in my DVI file. When
I convert this to PDF however the top margin reduces! I am not sure why this is happening. Could someone tell me how to ...
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Assigning fixed value to top margin
I am using TeXnicCenter .When I generate the .dvi file top margins look decent. Somehow on converting the .dvi to pdf the top margins get squashed. Is this normal? How can I ensure that an inch of ...
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Why does LaTeX not embed imported EPS images into the DVI file?
Experiment:
Compiling a file, having PSTricks code inside, in LaTeX (latex.exe), results in a self-contained DVI, where this PSTricks code is embedded.
But if the file has EPS images, the resulting ...
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How to better combine several PDF files with DVI and PS available?
I got 5 pdf files with their original dvi and ps, but i don't have the tex files which created them.
Now I would like to combine them to a single pdf. I know I can easily do it using Adobe acrobat. ...
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eps graphic doesn't show up in dvi output
I tried to use \munepsfig in my document, no error, no warning.
Just my image doesn't show, what could be actually wrong? Which file should I check to know the problem?
Anyway, I use a template ...
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Does tikz 2.1 no longer work with the preview package?
I used to be able to create png images of diagrams made with tikz code by using the preview package and printing the dvi output from dvips to a png file using ghostscript. The latest version of tikz ...
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LaTeX vs pdflatex on \neq
Using LaTeX for .dvi output produces unexpected result for \neq, instead of the \neq, it's displaying = though pdflatex provides the correct symbol.
Am I doing something wrong? I'm using ...
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Are \count1, …, \count9 useful?
To quote TeX by Topic, "whenever a \shipout occurs, TeX also writes the values of counters 0–9 to the dvi file and the terminal."
Do any dvi viewers or converters (e.g., dvips) make use of ...
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MikTex error for PNG images when trying to produce DVI
I have a tex file with \includegraphic elements for some PNG images.
I use MikTeX on Windows and the PDF is fine.
Now, I need a DVI so I tried using: \pdfoutput=0
This creates a DVI, but only after I ...
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Hyperref link spanning two lines
in my tex source file I have a link like that:
\href{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_dark_matter}{Warm
Dark Matter}
This link starts on one line and ends on the next line. The problem is that ...
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Difference between latex-dvips and pdflatex - resolutions
The answer to a previous question — hyperref url breaking — has got me puzzled. If you take the example code of the accepted answer and use pdfborder={0 0 10} (instead of 100), two things will happen:
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Tikz with positioning does not work with DVI
I have the following Tikz picture:
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node (a) {A};
\node [below=2cm of a] (b) {B};
\end{tikzpicture}
When I compile this code with PDF-LaTeX, I get the expected result: "B" ...
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Include image with spaces in path directory to be processed with dvips
I have the following image that I wish to include in my document:
wget http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/figures/1471-2164-10-37-1-l.jpg -O exampleImg.jpg
I need to compile via dvi. I covert ...
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microtype font expansion and DVI output; problem with kpathsea
Consider the following file test.tex
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[protrusion,expansion]{microtype}
\begin{document}
\chapter{A new chapter}
Some actual testing ...
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Is there any reason to compile to DVI rather than PDF these days?
I appreciate that in the past, latex was faster than pdflatex, but computer speeds being what they are nowadays, I can't see any difference in how quickly documents compile...
So, given that the end ...
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Difference between dvipdf executables
What is the difference between the different dvipdf executables in \MiKTeX 2.8\miktex\bin
dvipdfm.exe
dvipdfmx.exe
dvipdft.exe
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Why does my conference/university require me to use dvi intermediary format?
What for?
I thought pdfLaTeX was simpler and eliminated useless steps as well as possible font issues?
In other words what is the difference between a pdf generated using the LaTeX command and dvi's ...
