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<entry id="windvi"
       datestamp="1999/06/09" 
       modifier="Graham.Williams@cmis.csiro.au">
  <about>
    <name>windvi</name>
    <caption>MS-Windows DVI driver.</caption>
    <author>
      <name>Fabrice Popineau</name>
      <email>Fabrice.Popineau@supelec.fr</email>
    </author>
    <license type="gpl"/>
    <version>
      <number>0.56</number>
    </version>
  </about>
  <description>
    <abstract>
      There are many previewers for dvi files under MS-Windows. The
      most popular is probably <xref
      refid="dviwin">Dviwin</xref>. However it lacks some important
      features such as the ability to recursively search directories
      for font files, the ability to use .vf files or display
      PostScript fonts, and the ability to display PostScript images.
      Unfortunately, the Dviwin sources were never put into the public
      domain; on the other side of the fence, <xref
      refid="xdvi">Xdvi</xref> under Unix has these features, is
      widely used and its sources are available. Xdvi(k) uses the
      kpathsea library to search directories, already used in the
      Web2c-win32 port of TeX, so there was some interest in porting
      Xdvi(k) to Win32. As it turned out, this turned into far more
      than just a port, as X Windows is far from Win32. All the user
      interface and the graphical part has been rewritten.
    </abstract>
  </description>
  <distribution>
    <ctan>systems/win32/fptex</ctan>
    <texlive>doc1</texlive>
  </distribution>
</entry>

