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
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 -------
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.
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