Re: [NTG-context] HZ and DVI

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:

Peter M writes:

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If there is something similar for pdf, then yes: you can drop dvi support!

Even then, you would lose source specials. I haven't figured out a way to do it, despite cracking open (via xpdf) the PDF reference manual. I thought about doing with annotations, having pdftex/ConTeXt insert the pdf literals. However, the annotation dictionary doesn't have a cross-platform way of calling a script. It has enough slots to do it for Windows, but nowhere else. At least, that was what I gathered, but maybe a longer look or a shorter look by PDF experts might give a more hopeful conclusion.

There is pdfsync but that is Mac only (AFAIU). In latex, I had occasionally used vpe (http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=vpe). I tried it on Windows (MikTeX) and it worked ok, but was not too useful. The documentation claims that it also works on Unix. Aditya