<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Hi, Luis—</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I do not have that many .dvi files. So what you suggest is very attractive. But, when I try opening one in TeXShop, though it does seem to open (and registers the .dvi file in the list of files opened recently), I do not see a .pdf file anywhere. Where does it put them? Or has TeXShop failed to produce a .pdf for some reason?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Alan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Luis Sequeira <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lfsequeira@gmail.com" target="_blank">lfsequeira@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">> I have a number of .dvi files created some 25 years ago using Plain TeX and<br>
> Computer Modern which I want to convert to .pdf files. Any suggestions<br>
> about what I need and how to do this will be greatly appreciated.<br>
><br>
> So far as TeX goes, I have the ConTeXt standalone (aka the ConTeXt<br>
> minimals).<br>
><br>
> I am currently running Mac OSX 10.11.<br>
><br>
> Alan<br>
<br>
</span>The answer depends somewhat on how many files there are, and on whether you are a command line or a GUI guy.<br>
If you install mactex, as was already discussed, you can convert a dvi file to pdf simply by double-clicking. TeXShop automatically opens and converts a dvi to pdf.<br>
Of course, that may not be the most practical if you have hundreds of them.<br>
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Luis Sequeira<br>
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