The TeX-Guy Project

New! TeX-Guy 1.3.2 is released! New!
Install TeX-Guy-1.3.2 and VFlib 3.6.14 today!

DVI files with PostScript fonts can be previewed/printed directly.
VFlib 3.6.10 and later contains an automatic vflibcap
(font definition database) file generator, named vflmkcaptex.

News!

EducAide Software ported VFlib & DVIlib to Windows. Download from http://www.educaide.com/downloads/files/beta/dvilib-win32.zip.
It contains improvement to use FreeType2. Read build instruction by EducAide Software. Read build instruction by EducAide Software. (May 17, 2006)

What is the TeX-Guy Project?

This project develops a set of TeX DVI previewers and printer drivers. The core software of this project is DVIlib, a device independent DVI interpreter. Using DVIlib, new driver programs are easily developed.

Open Source

TeX-Guy is distributed with all source code.

Structure of DVIlib-based dviware: [See Figure]

Screenshots and Demos

xgdvi is a DVI previewer on X Window System with GTK+ 1.2. Messages are internationalized. Emacs-like key binding is implemented.
Document of xgdvi 1.6 in HTML: [English] . [Japanese]
Other DVI previewers are spawg and spawx11.
- spawg, which is another DVI previewer on X11 with GTK+ 1.2.
- spawx11, which is "the Simplest Previewer with Anti-aliasing in the World for X11".
A Japasese text, Vertical writing of Japanese text by pTeX

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Paper on DVIlib

DVIlib is a virtual machine for DVI instructions.

Hirotsugu Kakugawa, "A Device Independent DVI Interpreter Library for Various Output Devices", TUG 2000 Conferece, pp. 101-107, Wadham College, Oxford, UK, Aug. 2000.

Bugs? Comments? Donation?

Please send a message to h.kakugawa@computer.org.

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