Re: evince + DVI?

[Benny Siegert <bsiegert%gmail.com@localhost>]

Not having embedded fonts is what made DVI device independent (hence
the name). This was when fonts were bitmapped, and you could print
with different resolutions from the same DVI file.

On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 1:52 PM <coypu%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 01:48:18PM +0100, Benny Siegert wrote:
> > I think for dvi to work, you have to have the TeX fonts and kpathsea
> > and friends installed, which might be a bit heavy for a rarely used
> > feature?
> >
> > On Sat, Feb 16, 2019 at 7:54 AM <coypu%sdf.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > any idea why dvi is disabled by default for evince3?
> > > Any reason not to enable dvi and djvu?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Benny
>
> Blah. I didn't realize DVI doesn't support font embedding...



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Benny