[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Simons, Don skryf:
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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.
> >
> Mind-boggling but true. I downloaded dvipdfm-0.11.tar.gz from CTAN,
> typed ./configure, make and ./install on my Linux box, and tried it
> on musixdoc.dvi itself. It couldn't find the tfm's. I symbolically
> linked the tfm files in the cm, musixtex and mflogo directories to
> the current directory, and it worked. It generates 600dpi pdf's
> although my TeX is set up for 300 dpi, but the result looks just
> marvellous using ghostview as pdf viewer. Even at 4x magnification
> it is still not grainy on the display.
>
> Pity about the tfm path bug. Hope the author fixes it.
>
Until then redhat linux users may download a rpm package from the dvipdfm home
page http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/
I have had no difficulties with that distribution.
>
> Dirk
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Christian Mondrup, Computer Programmer
Scandiatransplant, Skejby Hospital, University Hospital of Aarhus
Brendstrupgaardsvej, DK 8200 Aarhus N, Denmark
Phone: +45 89 49 53 01
