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# Chapter 1. Usage

kdvi is a plugin for the kviewshell program which allows kviewshell to display dvi-files which are produced by the TeX typesetting system. More information about TeX and DVI can be found on the homepage of the TeX user group. kdvi 0.9 supports the inclusion of PostScript graphics and it supports hyperlinks. More details and the technical specifications can be found in a separate document. For up-to-date information, consult kdvi's home page.

kdvi 0.9 is based on based on the stand-alone-program kdvi 0.4.3 by Markku Hihnala. That program is in turn based on xdvik version 18f which has many authors.

For convenience there exists a command kdvi which calls kviewshell with the kdvi-plugin preloaded. The viewer may thus be started using the command

     kdvi somepath/paper.dvi

or without a file name as kviewshell will then allow a file to be opened from a dialog or a menu of recently used files. This menu can also be popped up by clicking the File button with the right mouse button.

The usual parameters handled by Qt and KDE applications also work:

     kdvi -style windows -display :0 -geometry 400x400+0+0 -caption "DVI"

For integration with TeX the opened DVI file is automatically reloaded when changed.

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