Bug#361080: xdvi does not display my dvi correctly
Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> just when I was about to hit send for the below message, I decided to do
> another test: On my office machine (not Debian, but that should not
> matter), the culprit seems to be anti-aliasing of th PS image. This can
> be set with command line switch '-gsalpha', X11 resource XDvi.gsAlpha or
> (interactively) with 'V'. Result: Text is shown when anti-aliasing is
> disabled. Text is not shown when anti-aliasing is enabled. You can cycle
> through this by hitting 'V'. My Debian machine is at home, but I suspect
> it is the same there ...
Yes, that's it! And xdvi seems to remember the setting when I exit the
program and start it again.
>>> On my system, the text can be seen very briefly, before it is covered by
>>> the PS image.
>>
>> Ah, that's strange.
>
> You are the one who is strange. ;-) Seriously, that some text is not
> shown in xdvi when PS is combined with text from TeX is absolutely
> natural for me. It has been like this for ever, well, for as long as I
> have used TeX.
Yes, I know, but I was surprised that it is shown *briefly* after
starting; usually I found it is either shown or not shown at all.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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