Re: DVI Question

["Gideon Alon" <gidiloo gmail com>]

On 9/29/07, Olaf Leidinger <leidola newcon de> wrote:

Hi!

> Evince looks like a great program, but when I install it it doesn't seem
> able to read DVI formatted files.    DVI is listed as an optional
> format.   How do you get it to be included?    I'm running Linux and
> creating DVI files from LaTex with xdvi.

Well, it depends on your linux distribution which backends are built.
Distributions as ubuntu compile it in.

What distributions are you using?

Ciao,

Olaf

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Hi Bill,
If you are compiling from source, when you run the ./configure script, use the following:

./configure --enable-dvi. Then go through the usual motions of make and make install. 

This also works for allowing TIFF format, or PDF format by using:
./configure --enable-pdf --enable-tiff.
For the latter two you need to make sure you have the latest poppler 0.6 and the tiff-dev libraries.
Hope it helps.
Cheers,
Gideon