MDVI 0.2

MDVI aims to provide a library that can be used to implement DVI drivers easily. A DVI driver is included, and uses the X Window System to display files. However, MDVI is in its very early stages of development. In fact, as of this writing (May 2001), it is less than four months old. You will probably find things that don't work as they should, or that simply don't work at all. Please consider taking the time to report them. <br /><br />Features<br /><br /> Any magnification is allowed (although some magnifications may not be supported by your font installation).<br /> Independent vertical and horizontal resolutions and scaling factors.<br /> Rulers to measure distances on the screen.<br /> Builtin support for fonts in PK, GF, VF and OVF formats<br /> Support for PostScript Type1 fonts, using the t1lib library<br /> Support for TrueType fonts, using FreeType 1.x<br /> Builtin support for font metrics files in TFM, AFM, OFM-0 and OFM-1 formats. These are used as a last resort, so MDVI can display a box with the right dimensions, or skip over the right distance, when a font is missing.<br /> Ability to partially read a DVI file, including a powerful mechanism to select the `interesting' pages from a file.<br /> Several ways of sorting pages, by DVI or TeX page numbers.<br /> Customizable via environment variables and a global `texmf.cnf' file<br /> Can display DVI files in 8 different orientations<br /> Supports antialiasing and high-quality shrinking when using Type1 or TrueType fonts<br /> Font support can be completely configured from the command line (i.e. what font formats to recognize and in what order to look for them).<br /> MDVI can use external Type1 fonts and metric files (from an existing Ghostscript installation or from X11)<br /> Limited support for color specials.<br /> MDVI will try very hard to display files even if some fonts are missing. In fact, it will try much harder than other popular DVI viewers.<br /><br />

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Platforms:	*nix, Linux
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