xdvi.bin: special "header=pstricks.pro" not implemented

[Iosif Pinelis]

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Denis Girou wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Iosif.Pinelis" == Iosif Pinelis <ipinelis at mtu.edu> writes:
> 
>     Iosif.Pinelis> My sun machine is a part of a server network. The version of
>     Iosif.Pinelis> xdvi we have responds
> 
>     Iosif.Pinelis> xdvi.bin:  special "header=pstricks.pro" not implemented
> 
>     Iosif.Pinelis> and shows no pstricks but dvips works ok. Our computer admistrators
>     Iosif.Pinelis> don't know how to fix this. Can you please help with any suggestions?
> 
>   Yes, this is a well-known behaviour. As the name "PS"Tricks show, this
> software is heavily related to PostScript and no effect can be visible if the
> viewver or the printer you use doesn't implement the PostScript language.
> 
>   As "xdvi" is a viewver for the DVI format, all "current" versions doesn't
> support PostScript at all, as the one you use. So, ever systematically convert
> your dvi files to PostScript using a dvi to ps converter, as you do ("dvips"
> is the most often used on Unix systems) and use after a PostScript viewer as
> ghostview, kghostview, gv, etc.  Or ever install recent versions of xdvi,
> which are able to manage PostScript commands (on Unix systems, they require
> the "ghostscript" software to be installed). Version 22 was released few days
> ago: CTAN/dviware/xdvi/xdvi-22.01.tar.gz
> CTAN/dviware/xdvik/xdvik-22.01.tar.gz
> 
> D.G.

Dear Dr. Girou,

Thank you very much for your quick response. I'll forward your message
to our computer administration; I hope this will help. 

Iosif Pinelis

 


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Iosif Pinelis
Dept of Math Sciences
MTU
Houghton, MI 49931
USA

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