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XGDVI: Its Feature

  1. User frientdly and internationalized GUI.
    Xgdvi adopts GTK+ (Gimp Toolkit) to build Graphical user interface.

    Printer system is much easy to operate. Users need not specify complex and difficult printer name or print command. user can select a print among printer list with annotation.

    Messages display system is internationalized and buttons, tooltips, etcare displayed in users native language, by setting an evrionment variable LANG. (Currently, English and Japanese (ja_JP.euc locale) messages are provided by default.)

  2. Support for color EPS figures.
    You can preview color EPS figure. This feature is support on X server that supports Direct or True color visual mode with 15 planes or larger. In case your X server does not support for these color models, EPS figures are displayed as monochrome figures. EPS figures are rendered by invoking ghostscript (gs) program.

    Currently, graphics,sty, graphicx.sty, psfig.sty, epsbox.sty, epsf.sty packages are supported. (See section 6 for unimplemented features.)

  3. Multiple buffers.
    Xgdvi can open multiple DVI files simultaneously. Buffer is an opened DVI file in memory, and user can select a DVI file to be displayed in a buffer. Multiple files name can be given on command line.

  4. It adopts VFlib 3.
    Many font file formats can be used: PK, GF, Virtual Font, Type 1, ... and more!

  5. Open source.
    All source code of xgdvi is opened and it is distributed as free software. You can obtain the source code and improve to change the GUI, add functionalities of xgdvi.


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Hirotsugu Kakugawa
2001-11-02