From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32640 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: HZ and DVI Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2007 23:39:25 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1168404002 28264 80.91.229.12 (10 Jan 2007 04:40:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 04:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 10 05:40:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H4VFi-0007bA-An for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:39:54 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5CB5B1FE3F; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:36:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27287-03; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:36:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3880D1FCE5; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:36:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5686D1FCE8 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:36:08 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27064-04-4 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:36:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C20C1FCE3 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2007 05:36:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: FROM aditya.annarb01.mi.comcast.net (c-68-40-50-205.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.50.205]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 45A46DFF.9CCAA.25039 ; 9 Jan 2007 23:39:28 -0500 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:32640 Archived-At: On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > Peter M writes: > > 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. There is pdfsync but that is Mac only (AFAIU). In latex, I had occasionally used vpe (http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=vpe). I tried it on Windows (MikTeX) and it worked ok, but was not too useful. The documentation claims that it also works on Unix. Aditya