[12418] in Athena Bugs
decmips 7.7F: xdvi
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Harrington)
Tue Aug 16 19:43:39 1994
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Cc: jh@MIT.EDU
Reply-To: jh@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 1994 19:43:29 EDT
From: Joe Harrington <jh@MIT.EDU>
System name: mercury
Type and version: KN02ca 7.7F (1 update(s) to same version)
Display type: PMAG-DV
What were you trying to do?
Use xdvi to display a DVI file, and read it.
What's wrong:
The letters are too thin to be read easily. The quality is
definitely much poorer than the previous release's xdvi. The
old defaults were 300dpi/40% density. These defaults are
600dpi/20% density. The 20% density is too thin to read most
of the letters easily. The -S option (and .densityPercent X
resource) to override the defaults appears to have no effect
on the output. Using the file dvips.dvi, generated from this
release's dvips.tex, I tried the following -S values: 0 1 20
40 80 100 110. Only 0 failed, with a usage error. The
others, including 110, were accepted but did not produce
different output. There are no fonts anymore to use with the
-p option at lower resolutions. Yes, I've redone my TEXFONTS,
XDVIFONTS, and even PKFONTS variables and my X resources and
read the release 7.7 notes.
What should have happened:
A density of 40% should have produced darker letters and
enabled me to find settings that worked to get the
high-quality output I'm used to from xdvi. I talked to 2 olc
consultants and they were unable to come up with a workaround.
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
xdvi man page, where it talks about -S and -p
I can do some testing of patches and fixes once they exist.
--jh--
