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DVI previewers |
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EmTeX for PCs running MS-DOS or OS/2, MiKTeX and XEmTeX for PCs running Windows and OzTeX for the Macintosh, all come with previewers that can be used on those platforms. EmTeX's previewer can also be run under Windows 3.1.
Commercial PC TeX packages (see commercial vendors) have good previewers for PCs running Windows, or for Macintoshes.
For Unix systems, there is one "canonical" viewer, xdvi.
Xdvik is a version of xdvi using the
web2c libraries; it is now built from the same distribution
as xdvi. The TeX Live distributions for Unix systems
include a version of xdvik.
Alternatives to previewing include
- conversion to "similar" ASCII text (see converting to ASCII) and using a conventional text viewer to look at that,
- generating a PostScript version of your document and viewing it
with a
ghostscript-based previewer (see previewing PostScript files), and - generating PDF output, and viewing that with Acrobat Reader or one of the substitutes for that.