Questions tagged [dvi]
{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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How to retrieve coordinates of the bounding boxes from rendered latex that may contain math expressions?
I'm wondering if there is a path to retrieve bounding boxes of the rendered glyphs (text, math symbols, etc) from latex. pdftotext supports partially of that but won't cover non-text glyphs like \frac{...
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Equality of compiled LaTeX documents
I want to test whether or not the output of two different compilations of the same .tex file under different circumstances is equal.I first considered compiling to pdf and then comparing the pdf's ...
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Why does this code generate a DVI file that can't be opened?
I am generating a .DVI file with MiKTeX, that can't be opened.
By looking online, I found this reply:
https://latex.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=500
suggesting the problem could be related to PostScript. ...
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Why is my Arabic writing broken?
Previously, I tested LyX for writing in Arabic with the Arabic (Arabi) language setting. LyX could render Arabic writing properly at that time without punctuation or harakat. But, if I add harakat or ...
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writing own commands in Tex studio
In Texstudio how to open my own window to write div my own Latex command?
Also, in Tex studio, how to run Latex and create a dvi file only, not PDF?
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How to get bounding boxes for jpg/png in latex
Currently i include png/jpg files with graphicx package
compiling with lualatex, no problem, in particular no error message because of bounding box not found.
This question is about historic ways to ...
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glossaries: spurious space before the glossarized item at the start of a line
Feeding mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage[style=long3colheader,toc]{glossaries}% using v4.52. If instead we use glossaries-extra v1.50, the ...
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\scriptstyle doesn't propagate into the output of \gls{…} when using latex+dvips
Feeding mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}%%% The documentation of glossaries tells to load hyperref first. But this ...
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latex + hyperref + glossaries + pstricks produces colored text and underlined links in DVI though neither is commanded
Feeding mwe.tex containing
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}%%% The documentation of glossaries tells to load hyperref first.
\usepackage[...
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Metadata in dvi files
I found out that even when creating dvi files, e.g. with pdflatex --output-format=dvi ...
one can use hyperref.
When i use just \usepackage{hyperref}, then my viewer okular shows some content.
On the ...
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Read and convert very old DVI files
I have some very old DVI files from the 80s and 90s which were created using the version of TeX and/or LaTeX available at that time. YAP barfs on these complaining of no preamble; so does present-...
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long equality symbol for DVI output
Continuing A better long ≝ (defining equals, equals to by definition) without bumps, feeding
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\newcommand*{\longEquals}{\mathrel{\...
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How to build index of words from PostScript generated by DVIPS?
The background story is, I'm building Common Lisp the Language from its publicly released source, the source is in LaTeX 2.09 and was build by "Textures, an implementation of TeX by Blue Sky ...
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powerdot: slides no longer rendering (problem with dvi files?) [duplicate]
I have many powerdot slides that have rendered successfully in the past. Today, I re-rendered one of my old files using the same command as before but now, the slides are all cut-off on the right-hand ...
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Are output files other than PDF obsolete?
I always thought tex turned code into pdf but it seems that has not always been the case. Depending on the process, I could end up with a DVI file or a PS file. Are these still commonly used? Can they ...
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latex>dvips>ps2pdf in a single step
As explained in How to use "latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf" to get pdf output? sometimes it necessary to produce a pdf file from a tex file in two steps:
latex input.tex
dvips input.dvi
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Extracting spatial metadata about \hboxes, \vboxes, glyphs, glues, etc
I have been using TeX for almost 10 years, but only very recently decided to learn more about what TeX really does under the hood. This is because I want to display LaTeX-rendered text and mathematics ...
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Inferring the baseline height and bounding box widths of characters/text/equations in the 'standalone' environment
I am writing a mathematics visualisation tool using C++ and OpenGL, and want to incorporate LaTeX text and equations. I was initially looking for a C++ library to directly render LaTeX text/equations ...
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dvips or dvipdf + evince = missing special characters on printout
This started happening fairly recently (sometime between April 7 and May 5). It appears that if I convert a DVI to a PDF (e.g. using dvipdf, although I'm not sure what all tools trigger this) and then ...
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Call LaTeX (not PDFLaTeX) in Miktex
I am a bit confused because in the "good old days", the command latex seemed to create a dvi document.
Now, when I run latex, obviously pdflatex is run, even if I specify an output format:
C:...
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Can latexmk generate a DVI file with lualatex or an XDV file with xelatex without generating a PDF?
Background: I am the developer of IguanaTex, a PowerPoint add-in to insert LaTeX displays in Powerpoint. I would like to let my users generate SVG files using dvisvgm via either a DVI file or an XDV ...
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Can vimtex be integrated with a DVI viewer?
Is it possible to configure vimtex to produce a DVI file (instead of PDF) from the a latex source file and update an external DVI viewer? This could potentially speed up the compilation times.
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My pictures disappeared
I'm writing a text and everything was fine but today two files named "Main.out.ps" and "Main.dvi" appeared in my main folder. My problem is that in the Main.pdf my images that I ...
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How to specify backgroundcolor with dvisvgm
I am trying to convert a DVI to SVG with some white background. How do I need to specify the color?
I have tried to convert the following example using latex (generating the DVI) and dvisvgm (...
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How can I write a LaTeX interpreter for Roblox?
I want to render LaTeX inside Roblox, a 3D game engine, to create educational math games. There are 3 problems with this plan:
You can only run Lua code in Roblox, so natively compiling LaTeX is not ...
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Emoji in DVI? (dvilualatex, dvisvgm and twemojis)
Motivation
I want to use emojis in Manim, an animation software which uses LaTeX for rendering in the background. The pipeline is:
generate a TeX file
run dvilualatex on it to convert it to DVI
run ...
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Custom PK-file is not accessible for DVI-driver
I try to understand how new fonts are created.
I drew my stylized letter 'L'.
Then I programmed it in Metafont (MyL.mf).
mode_setup;
fontmaking:=1;
pixels_per_inch:=600;
beginchar(&...
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pk: height, ascend, descend and cap-height of a pk font face
still working on my dvi-to-png program in Go ([1]), I am trying to shoehorn face metrics from pk and tfm into this structure from "the" Go font library:
package font // import "golang....
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pk: how to compute the advance of a given glyph
I am working on a Go library that reads a .dvi file and produces a .png file.
I have already the packages that find+parse .tfm and .pk files working: I have the pk2bm, tfm2pl and dvitype equivalent ...
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Generate eps from tex
Assume the test.tex file for an image is as
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\begin{document}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\node [draw] {hello world!};
\end{tikzpicture}
\end{document}
I used the ...
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AUCTeX: TeX-PDF-from-DVI is always "Dvips" and file is compiled to DVI instead of PDF
I have a weird behavior of the TeX-PDF-from-DVI variable from AUCTeX: it keeps being set to "Dvips", and Emacs keeps calling latex instead of pdflatex.
I start with a minimal file test.tex.
\...
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Tex document compiles fine, but converting it to .odt or .docx failes for mk4ht and pandoc
I am able to compile my document fine using the pdflatex chain in Kile, but when I try to convert it to an .odt file using mk4ht oolatex 0.main.tex I get the following error.
! pdfTeX error (\...
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LateXML can't find binding for class
I'm using LateXml for the first time and I can't get the conversion.
There are some details I must comment first:
I use TexLive 2019 in linux.
I'm using a .cls file in which the documentclass is ...
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Yap suddenly fails to print .dvi files and .ps files
dvi-Files that used to print with Yap (up to March 9) don't now (from March 12 onwards),
although Yap shows them on screen, nor does "File - Print - Postscript" work. Instead error messages ...
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DVI files with modern TeX workflows
Out of curiosity, are there any modern TeX workflows that still use .dvi files? Or is everything going straight to PDF these days? In other words, can I safely ignore the existence of such things as I ...
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yap suddenly fails to print .dvi-Files [closed]
yap suddenly fails to print .dvi-Files, instead displays message "MiKTeX encountered an internal error", although MiKTeX installed October 2020 hasn't been changed/updated since. (The ...
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How to preview a DVI (rather than a PDF) in TeXstudio
TeXstudio is very slow when compiling and previewing a 400-page book. I was told that previewing a DVI is faster than PDF, so I want to preview a DVI instead. How do I do that in TeXstudio? By ...
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Differences between .dvi-files created via LuaLaTeX and .dvi-files created via pdfLaTeX
System in use for experiments: Debian buster (i386), vanilla TeX Live 2020
Creating .dvi-files with LuaLaTeX currently appears to have no practical use to me as end-user as long as due to the lack of ...
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eps pictures don't work in my new LaTeX
I have been writing this book for 10 years, no problem with LaTeX-ing. Last week I had to update my MacOS from 10.9 to 10.14. As a result, I had to reinstall my TeXShop, as well. Now I'm getting this ...
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How to use spotcolor inside \special for dvi -> ps -> pdf?
I have a bunch of old figures using the picture environment. To compile the figures I have to use the dvi->dvips->ps2pdf toolchain.
I need to change the colours in these pictures from rgb model ...
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On TeX and LaTeX relations [closed]
Could you help me with the following questions?
I have downloaded the source files of MiKTeX of the last version and I want to see the source code of latex.exe but cannot find it. Where is it located?...
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Can one retrieve the content of dvi.tex files?
Hello: I still have some dvi.tex files which were created in the times of Textures. They all indicate a size of 0 bytes. Are they really ghosts, or is there a way to retrieve their contents?
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How to put a picture inside a dvi file?
I want to use Helevetica Neue for producing a dvi file. As this means using a standard system (non LaTex) font, this leave LuaTeX as the only option.
I’m simply using something like this:
\photo{/...
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inconsistent pdf eps output: pst2pdf acting on original.tex vs pdflatex acting on pst2pdf original.tex->produced.tex(multiple)
Following "The current state of pstricks project" (Herbet Voss, TUGboat, Vol31 (2101), no.1) I prepared a file unitz.tex containing 3 pspicture.
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{pstricks}
\...
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Mikitex problem report during compilation from latex to dvi
I m facing a problem named as Mikitex problem report in some documents during compilation from latex to dvi. Copied information given below:
> MiKTeX Problem Report Message: The page could not be ...
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dvisvgm: DVI to SVG issue
I am trying to convert a DVI to SVG on Manjaro / Arch Linux, but it just won't work.
I use the following latex (test.tex) to create a dvi file (test.div)
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
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Getting a .dvi output from Overleaf
This question deals with what I am trying to achieve above, but when I changed the compiler to LaTeX from PdfLaTeX, my output PDF only had 3 pages, when the entire document is supposed to be 8 pages ...
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Reset font size of dvi file in Latex (Yap problem)
I am using WinEdt editor for LaTeX. Suddenly, the DVI file has shrinked so much in size that it is totally impossible to see it with a naked eye. Maybe that I've hit some button by mistake. It is of ...
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How to concatenate XeTeX's .xdv files
For concatenating LaTeX's .dvi files you can use the program dviconcat:
dviconcat -o combined.dvi file1.dvi file2.dvi file3.dvi
What program can you use for concatenating XeLaTeX's .xdv files?
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Latex problem with eps figures generated with Matlab
I have generated eps figures for my article which encountered problem with Latex. When I compile it with Latex --> dvi , The figure on the left side does not appear properly as can be seen in the ...
