"Simons, Don" wrote:
> 2 different people have suggested that dvipdfm might make pdf's of MusiXTeX
> output that look better on screen than those generated in the usual way with
> Acrobat Distiller. An example given by Christian Mondrup looks very
> convincing. So I decided to try it.
>
> My OS is Win95. I downloaded dvipdfm.zip (can't remember where I found it).
> Unpacked it and ran dvipdfm. Got an error message saying that gnu.dll was
> missing. Searched for gnu.dll in CTAN and windows95.com with no luck. Alta
> Vista search for "gnu.dll" gave me a MikTeX update file list somewhere in
> italy. So it's part of update III of MikTeX. Downloaded update.exe. On
> running it I find out it's a self-installing thing so there's apparently no
> way to just get gnu.dll out of it. So I go back and look for the complete
> distribution of MikTeX and find out it's 17 MB, way more than I have the
> patience deal with at this point when all I seem to need is one stupid dll.
> I know, I know, there may be others I need too which Wonderful Windows will
> only tell me about one at a time.
>
> I can't believe I have to install all of MikTeX just to get dvipdfm. Where
> have I gone astray?
I'm not sure you are. I didnt find a win9x binary elsewhere and the MiKTeX
distribution comes as described by you in rather big 'lumps' You may as an
alternative download the dvidpdfm sources from a CTAN mirror and in order to
compile it will want the cygwin win32 GNU environment. I once tried to compile
dvipdfm on a linux box but wasn't able to execute it successfully afterwards due
to TeX path conflicts. I'm willing to post the gnu.dll library to who might want
it but won't be able to say if the MiXTeX dvipdfm binary distribution will
eventually be functioning within a non MiKTeX environment.
That being said I would like to emphasize the quality of the MiXTeX TeX
implementation.
>
> And while we're at it, I boggles my mind that some independent freeware
> writer could do what mighty Adobe couldn't, viz., make pdf's that nicely
> display bitmapped fonts.
>
> --Don Simons
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