[6453] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Susan J Brown: sun4 8.1.8: sipb xdvi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (chad brown)
Fri Aug 15 14:44:07 1997
To: Susan J Brown <browns@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU, Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:41:30 EDT."
<199708151541.LAA13729@megara.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 14:43:57 EDT
From: chad brown <yandros@MIT.EDU>
Hello, Susan.
I've been told that you had a problem displaying EPS graphics with the
sipb version of xdvi. While the sipb locker did not have a version of
xdvi capable of doing this for a few weeks, due to some
misunderstandings on my part, there has been a
postscript-graphic-capable version in the sipb locker for the past few
weeks, and I am certain that it does display at least some postscript
graphics.
So, there are two things that we (sipb) need to know in order to help
you out:
1) are you certain that you're using the sipb xdvi? doing:
athena% which xdvi
should give you a path to the xdvi that will be run by default. If
it's not something in the sipb locker, doing:
athena% add -f sipb
before running xdvi (only needs to be done once per shell, or one
time only if you put it in your .environment file) should correct
that.
2) if you are indeed using the sipb xdvi and yet are not seeing your
graphics, there are a few possiblities, since xdvi actually has two
different ways to attempt to render your postscript figures. I
recomend trying the following few things. Please make sure that
the eps files are in the correct directory.
athena% add gnu
athena% xdvi file.tex
athena% xdvi -nodps +noghostscript file.tex
athena% xdvi -noghostscript +nodps file.tex
These various methods will try to display the file using the
default method, and then explictly using GhostScript, and then
explicitly using Display PostScript.
Please let us know how this works out, particularly if the first
invocation of `xdvi' doesn't work but one of the other two does.
thanks,
chad
