IDVI and IDVI Source
IDVI
The 1.0 release of IDVI is now available.
A beta 1.1 release is available as well.
The 1.1 release fixes some problems with postscript images.
IDVI is copyright 1996 Garth A. Dickie, and may be
freely distributed for non-commercial use.
The software itself requires:
- a unix environment;
- a set of pk font files from a TeX installation;
- Netscape 2.02 or better (but not 3.01!),
or the Java Developers Kit version 1.01 or better;
- Ghostscript and PBMPlus, if you wish to process embedded postscript images. (Type 'which gs' and 'which ppmtogif' to see if you have these installed already.)
The installation process itself requires, in addition:
- make, for managing the installation;
- unzip, for extracting class files from a zip archive.
Installation under AIX is quite difficult, since the software assumes that
the bourne shell is available as /bin/sh, and the installation makefile
assumes that make uses the bourne shell to execute its rules. A separate
release for AIX may be made at a later date; please let me know
if you are interested.
In order of increasing size, you can download the 1.0 release of IDVI as:
- a gzipped tar file;
- a compressed tar file;
- or an uncompressed tar file.
In order of increasing size, you can download the 1.1 beta release of IDVI as:
- a gzipped tar file;
- a compressed tar file;
- or an uncompressed tar file.
You should probably make sure that only one person at your
site downloads and installs IDVI, since it will grab a fair
sized chunk of space on your web server (for a set of pk font files).
IDVI Source
The source code for the 1.0 release of IDVI is also being made available.
The IDVI source code is copyright 1996 Garth A. Dickie,
and is free for non-commercial use.
In order of increasing size, you can download the 1.0 IDVI source code as:
- a gzipped tar file;
- a compressed tar file;
- or an uncompressed tar file.
You can download the 1.1 beta IDVI source code as:
- a gzipped tar file
This version now (June 2007) compiles with Sun's 1.4.2_05 JDK.
Comments
Please send comments on the download and installation process,
the software, and the documentation
to the author, Garth A. Dickie.
Last modified 13 October 1996; updated 13 June 2007
Garth A. Dickie / dickie@elastic.avid.com