KDVI supports a large number of extensions to the original DVI format, e.g. hyperlinks, graphic file inclusion or embedded source file information. These extensions are known as "DVI specials". A full account of specials supported by KDVI can be found in this document.
The DVI specials dialog help you to configure support for some specials.
If this option is checked, KDVI will display PostScript® graphics which are embedded into the DVI file. You probably want to set this option.
If an external PostScript® file could not be found, KDVI will draw a red warning box in its place. Unfortunately, rendering PostScript® graphics is very slow in the current version of KDVI. We will improve on the speed in later versions. If this option is off, KDVI will either draw a gray box as a placeholder for the graphics, or it will leave the space blank.
There is no standard way to embed PostScript®
graphics into a DVI file. It may therefore happen that
KDVI cannot properly display a graphic which works
fine with other programs. Older versions of
xdvi and dvips
support the execution of external commands. This is a
bad security risk and therefore deliberately not
implemented in KDVI. Technical information about
supported ways to include PostScript® can be found in
the document
KDVI-features.dvi
.
If you intend to use inverse search, a very useful feature if you write TeX documents yourself, you have to specify which editor you are going to use, and how this editor can be started by KDVI. In the example shown, the user has opted for the NEdit editor. If you use one of the pre-configured editors from the Editor combobox, then you don't have to do anything else. If you whish to use a different editor, chose User-defined editor from the Editor combobox and enter the command line which will be used to start your editor. Use the placeholders %f and %l which will be replaced with the name of the TeX file, and the line of the TeX file, respectively.
If you use an editor which is not supported, please
send us an email at (kebekus AT kde.org)
and tell us
about the command line you use and how you have configured
your editor.
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