[XeTeX] XDV viewer

[Moritz Angermann]

Hi

I'm not in for questionining the usefulness, but JK has a point here
and I'd be interesting to see what your intended use is too.

Apart from that:
One could always write one though.
After I've been looking though the xdv2png and dvipdfmx, to implement
the missing opcodes 251 to 254 in dvipng.

If you are familiar with fontconfig, freetype, kpathsea and your
windowing toolkit on windows it should be straight forward :)

The hardest part for me to extend dvipng is the way it has been
written. Especially adding new font types to the font numbering
system. But I'm making slow progress.

kindest regards,
    Moritz
On 2/27/08, Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
>
>  On 27 Feb 2008, at 3:55 am, Alastair M. Paterson wrote:
>
>  > Hi!
>  >
>  > Does anyone know of a .xdv file viewer that can be used with Windows?
>
>
> AFAIK, the only way to visualize an .xdv file (on any platform) is by
>  converting it to PDF.
>
>  Think of .xdv as a purely internal format that happens to be used to
>  communicate between two stages of the overall process. The fact that
>  it's possible to capture this internal data into a file is an
>  irrelevant detail of the implementation.
>
>
>  >
>  > I need to see the output of this file (produced by MikTeX) without
>  > converting it to PDF.
>
>
> Why do you need this?
>
>
>  JK
>
>
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