Re: [SL] latex dilemma (more info)

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On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Keith Mastin wrote:

> I tried directly loading the file into latex to see what happens...

A DVI (DeVice Independent) file is the binary output from
LaTeX (or TeX).  Loading it into LaTeX isn't quite the right
thing to do.  First, I would run
 file ....dvi
to verify that the file is in fact a DVI file (it should be).

Then, if you just want to see what is in it, you can use
xdvi under X11 (KDE, Gnome, IceWM, ...) to view it.  If
you don't have dvipdf (or whatever your binary to convert
to PDF is), you can try a bunch of other commands.  Doing
a 
 ls /usr/bin/dvi* /usr/local/bin/dvi*
should turn up most of them.  Dvips should work at least
as good as dvipdf.  Actually better, in so far that DVI
and PS are page description languages, while PDF is a bit
more than that (it has more structure than a PS file does).

Gord

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