[OS X TeX] TeXniscope DVI display bug?
Claus Gerhardt
gerhardt at math.uni-heidelberg.de
Sat Nov 18 01:17:53 CET 2006
Use the command
\special{papersize=8.5in,11in}
or whatever are the dimensions of letter paper immediately after the
documentclass command.
Claus
On Nov 17, 2006, at 21:34, Christopher Menzel wrote:
> This *sounds* at first like a newbie problem, but I swear it
> isn't! :-) For reasons related to a problem I've been experiencing
> with the simultaneous use of pdfsync and preview-latex, I am using
> "latex -src-specials" to compile my LaTeX documents. This, of
> course, creates DVI files rather than PDF files. I am using
> TeXniscope to view these files, as it preserves source specials
> info so I can have inverse search. This works just fine, but for
> one thing: when I view the file with TeXniscope the file displays
> on what appears to be A4 paper. Now I am long since familiar with
> the usual causes of this, and of course reran texconfig, both from
> the main menu and the DVIPS menu, just to make sure I am using
> lettersize. And if I compile my documents with pdflatex instead,
> TeXniscope displays them correctly as lettersize. Also, if I save
> the file as a PDF when it's displaying A4-ishly in TeXniscope,
> TeXniscope displays the resulting file correctly! And here's the
> clincher: xdvi displays the *very same* DVI file correctly.
> TeXniscope warns that problems with DVI display are usually
> traceable to dvipdfmx, which it allegedly uses for rendering DVI.
> However, the TeXniscope preferences show the dvipdfm program to be /
> usr/local/TeXLive/bin/i386-apple-darwin-current/dvipdfm, and when I
> run that from the command line on the raw DVI file, the resulting
> PDF file also displays correctly. (As an aside, dvipdfms also
> creates a PDF file that displays as lettersize, but the fonts look
> horrible.)
>
> Anybody have any idea what's going on here?
>
> Chris Menzel
>
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