Bug#361080: xdvi does not display my dvi correctly
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 15:12 +0200, Loren Weith wrote:
> Yes that's true and I wondered the same thing, however I got the same
> message with the fedora version that displayed it correctly. The fact
> that the magnifier shows the text seems to point strongly at there being a
> bug. Also, the postscript image does display right only the text is
> missing. The DVI probably isn't wrong since dvipdf works.
Norbert did not say theat there was something wrong with the DVI file.
The problem is, as he said, that xdvi often does not display PostScript
correctly. This is well known, documented and unlikely to change (see
xdvi(1) 'LIMITATIONS').
The realy odd thing is that the xdvi on the fedora system gets it right.
However, this is probably just by chance. As far as I understand this,
xdvi first puts the text on the screen, while the PS image is displayed
afterwards overwriting the text. If you use the magnifier, PS display is
disabled, hence you see the text only.
cheerio
ralf
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