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Article #407Re: DVI question
From: J. Lee Johnson
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1984 21:30
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 1984 21:30
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> From: furuta@uw-june (Richard Furuta)
>
> With TeX,
> you get the Metafonted fonts and the point of all of that is to give
> you an approximation of a consistent environment for the different devices
> you want to print to. Poor quality output from certain devices reflects
> differences between what they provide and the "ideal device" that TeX
> expects to find.
>
> The fact that you find different width fonts on different devices is a
> reflection of real world factors (like different designers, copyrights, and
> trade secrets).
>> From: bruce@godot.UUCP (Bruce Nemnich)
>>
>> TeX output is completely device-independent; it knows nothing about the
>> output device. What it does know about are fonts, which are identical
>> to TeX across devices. If the relative widths, heights, or shapes of
>> glyphs in a font are different on two devices, the two fonts are
>> certainly not the same.
If I understand this correctly, TeX DVI files are completely device
independent for all ideal TeX devices in a perfect and harmonious
world.
( Can I come for a visit? )
James Lee Johnson, U.T. Computation Center, Austin, Texas 78712
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