Talk:DVI (file format)
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I didn't bother to move this from DVI, it needs a reference or something:
- A lack of easy-to-use DVI software on microcomputers may be one of the reasons TeX did not compete against systems such as Adobe Acrobat.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by ( (talk • contribs) 15:57, 15 March 2003.
I'm not even sure it's true. Maybe it just needs a lot of qualifications. Note that a lot of people using TeX today (esp. on Windows) use it by generating a PDF and viewing the output in Acrobat Reader. (Of course, I don't think TeX was ever "competing" with Acrobat: they do different things.) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 4.16.250.66 (talk) 07:29, 19 September 2004
- I don't think TeX was ever "competing" with Acrobat: they do different things.
In particular, Acrobat is more "portable" in the sense that the fonts are (usually) embedded. With a DVI file, there can be problems when attempting to view on another system having fonts with the same name but different metrics. So, I agree that DVI never really competed against Acrobat (apples and quinces). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.107.220.141 (talk) 18:32, 19 August 2005
It says on the page that Donald Knuth was the designer. This is completely wrong -- it was in fact designed by David Fuchs in 1979 (see dvitype.web). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 129.240.70.73 (talk) 11:26, 15 March 2006
