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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label previewers</title>
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<h3>DVI previewers</h3>
<p/>EmTeX for PCs running MSDOS or OS/2, MiKTeX and
XEmTeX for PCs running Windows and OzTeX for the Macintosh, all
come with previewers that can be used on those platforms. EmTeX&rsquo;s
previewer can also be run under Windows 3.1.
<p/>Commercial PC TeX packages (see 
<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">commercial vendors</a>)
have good previewers for PCs running Windows, or for Macintoshes.
<p/>For Unix systems, there is one &lsquo;canonical&rsquo; viewer, <i>xdvi</i>.
<i>Xdvik</i> is a version of <i>xdvi</i> using the
<i>web2c</i> libraries; it is now built from the same distribution
as <i>xdvi</i>.  The TeX Live distributions for Unix systems
include a version of <i>xdvik</i>.
<p/>Alternatives to previewing include
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<li> conversion to &lsquo;similar&rsquo; ASCII text (see
  <a href="FAQ-toascii.html">converting to ASCII</a>) and using a
  conventional text viewer to look at that,
<li> generating a PostScript version of your document and viewing it
  with a <i>Ghostscript</i>-based previewer (see
  <a href="FAQ-PSpreview.html">previewing PostScript files</a>), and
<li> generating  PDF output, and viewing that with
  <i>Acrobat</i> <i>Reader</i> or one of the substitutes for that.
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<dt><tt><i>xdvi</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/xdvi.zip">dviware/xdvi</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/xdvi.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/xdvi/">browse</a>)
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<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=previewers">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=previewers</a>
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