Re: HZ and DVI

[Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk>]

Peter M <pmlists@free.fr> writes:
> The only reason why I still keep asking for dvi, is the good xdvi
> viewer.

I agree. xdvi is what prompted me into trying dvi mode again (and
investigating dvipos), because of its excellent anti-aliasing.  The
only pdf viewer whose rendering quality might be comparable is the
'apparition' viewer, part of the fitz <http://ccxvii.net/apparition/>.
Not ready for prime time yet, but it has lots of potential.

> If there is something similar for pdf, then yes: you can drop dvi
> support!

Even then, you would lose source specials.  I haven't figured out a
way to do it, despite cracking open (via xpdf) the PDF reference
manual.  I thought about doing with annotations, having pdftex/ConTeXt
insert the pdf literals.  However, the annotation dictionary doesn't
have a cross-platform way of calling a script.  It has enough slots to
do it for Windows, but nowhere else.  At least, that was what I
gathered, but maybe a longer look or a shorter look by PDF experts
might give a more hopeful conclusion.

-Sanjoy

`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)