Message-Id: <200011181821.NAA11373@delorie.com> Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:05:25 +0200 From: "Eli Zaretskii" Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com Subject: ANNOUNCE: DJGPP port of DviPDFm 0.9.4 uploaded Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com This is to announce that the DJGPP port of version 0.9.4 of the DviPDFm package is available from SimTel.NET mirrors worldwide: ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/tex/dpdf094b.zip ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2apps/tex/dpdf094s.zip DviPDFm is a DVI driver which produces PDF output. You can use it to produce TeX and Texinfo documents in PDF format, by first running TeX (or the texi2dvi script) to generate the DVI file, then running dvipdfm on the result. One situation where you might want that is to allow you to view the printed version of a Texinfo document without wasting paper to print it. (The alternative solution, to use the DviVGA program, is very primitive, when compared to availabe PDF viewers.) The binary package includes all the Type 1 and AFM fonts required to run DviPDFm, at least for fonts used by Texinfo documents. I downloaded the fonts from CTAN, so if you find any fonts missing, you could look for them on CTAN. Since this package installs fonts into the share/texmf tree, you will want to run `mktexlsr' after unzipping dpdf094b.zip. This port is of a relatively old release of DviPDFm. It is quite possible that you can find a much better version on the net. However, I don't have time to port a newer version, and this version is working fine for me for more than a year, at least as far as Texinfo documents are concerned. So I decided to let others use this port. Please direct any further discussions about this port to comp.os.msdos.djgpp news group (or write to its e-mail gateway djgpp AT delorie DOT com).