[OS X TeX] xdvi won't stop generating fonts

[William McCallum]

Thanks for the suggestion. Actually, I normally use OzTeX to view dvi 
files. But the mathematical program pari-gp calls xdvi to view help 
files, so I wanted to figure out how to make it go faster.

On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 01:48  AM, Enrico Franconi wrote:

> On March 12, William McCallum writes:
>> This may not be an xdvi problem, but I don't know. I can't get xdvi
>> to stop regenerating pk files. It calls mktexpk for every font every
>> time I view a file. If the pk file already exists it moves onto the
>> next font, but the process is still very slow, since it takes a
>> while for mktexpk to report that the file exists.
>
> I have the very same problem. If you do not have embedded postscript
> (but I have many!), you can use the carbon MacDviX from Tom Kiffe,
> which shares the same pk files with xdvi.
>
> cheers
> -- e.
>
> Enrico Franconi                     - franconi at cs.man.ac.uk
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