[OS X TeX] convert .dvi to .pdf

[Alan Bowen]

Herb and Ettore—

Many thanks for these suggestions! That is a great help indeed.

Alan

On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Ettore Aldrovandi <
ealdrov at mail.math.fsu.edu> wrote:

> dvipdfm would convert dvi —> pdf (but see below for the MacTeX
> installation)
>
> —Ettore
>
> > On Nov 17, 2015, at 08:26, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> On Nov 17, 2015, at 7:16 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Nov 17, 2015, at 6:52 AM, Alan Bowen <bowenalan03 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I have a number of .dvi files created some 25 years ago using Plain
> TeX and Computer Modern which I want to convert to .pdf files. Any
> suggestions about what I need and how to do this will be greatly
> appreciated.
> >>>
> >>> So far as TeX goes, I have the ConTeXt standalone (aka the ConTeXt
> minimals).
> >>>
> >>> I am currently running Mac OSX 10.11.
> >>>
> >>> Alan
> >>
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> Go to <http://www.tug.org/mactex/>.
> >>
> >> If you are really dedicated to using ConTeXt for your present documents
> go to the Smaller Download link and download and install BasicTeX.
> >>
> >> If you would like to have a full TeX distribution (which includes
> ConTeXt) go to the MacTeX Download link and download and install MacTeX.
> >>
> >> Good Luck,
> >>
> >> Herb Schulz
> >> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Whoops... missed the DVI references. You should also install
> Ghostscript. Then convert via dvips->ps2pdf or dvipdf.
> >
> > Good Luck,
> >
> > Herb Schulz
> > (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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