Bug 1851

Summary:	xdvi runs at wrong resolution
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	schulz
Component:	tetex	Assignee:	Mike Maher <mike>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.2
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	sparc
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	1999-03-30 20:56:48 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description schulz 1999-03-27 01:37:41 UTC

Under both Red Hat 4.2 on a SPARCStation SLC and Red Hat 5.2
on a SPARCStation Classic, the default xdvi (part of
tetex-xdvi-0.9-6 for 5.2) setup displays everything enlarged
by a factor of two. The problem can be fixed by editing
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi and changing

XDvi*pixelsPerInch: 600

to

XDvi*pixelsPerInch: 300

Comment 1 Preston Brown 1999-03-29 16:23:59 UTC

This is really a non-bug.  It is more a user-preferences request.
Most modern laser printers print at 600dpi rather than 300dpi, so
600dpi is becoming more and more the de facto setting.  In fact, tetex
ships with this setting by default.

------- Email Received From  Stephan Schulz <schulz.de> 03/29/99 11:37 -------

Comment 2 schulz 1999-03-30 14:22:59 UTC

I sent this in by email, but it did not show up yet...does emailing to
bugzilla work?


Perhaps the fix suggested by me is wrong (it works for me, although I
never understood why changing the printer resolution should affect
the screen display - or why xdvi should know anything about the
printer at all), but the problem is real - if I run xdvi with the
vanilla parameters on any of my SPARC Linux-Machines, everything is
displayed at the wrong size, namely two times enlarged on both the X
and Y axis.

Comment 3 Mike Maher 1999-03-30 16:46:59 UTC

We are sorry, but we will not currently make this feature request.