DVICOPY(1)

💖 DVICOPY 💖

okay bestie, welcome to dvicopy and odvicopy — the little Web2C 2025 glow-up your DVI files have been begging for 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

dvicopy, odvicopy — produce modified copy of DVI file

like, it makes you a copy of a DVI file, but make it fashion 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dvicopy [options] [infile[.dvi] [outfile[.dvi]]]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

ngl, this manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX lives in the info file or manual Web2C: A TeX implementation. so if you're looking for the whole lore, that's where it's at 📚

okay so here's the vibe: dvicopy reads a DVI file, expands any references to virtual fonts into base fonts, and writes the resulting DVI file. that's it, that's the whole serve ✨

and the reason you'd care: you can use virtual fonts even if your DVI processor does not support them — you just pass your documents through dvicopy first. iconic workaround behaviour, no cap 🔥

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

• -magnification=NUMBER — overrides the existing magnification with NUMBER. like, out with the old magnification, in with NUMBER, periodt.
• -max-pages=NUMBER — processes NUMBER pages. the default? one million. yes, literally one million, she said "process a lot" and meant it 😭
• -page-start=PAGE-SPEC — starts at PAGE-SPEC. for example, 2 or 5.*.-2. main character energy: pick your starting page, slay from there 💅

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🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

• dviselect(1)
• dvitype(1)

go read those too, bestie, iykyk 🫶

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🌈 AUTHORS 🌈

• Peter Breitenlohner wrote the program. 👑
• Klaus Guntermann originally ported it to Unix. 🧚

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💀 real talk: this page is a vibe and a reference, so don't come for me if you wanted the full exhaustive docs — those live in the info file / the Web2C: A TeX implementation manual, fr fr.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this one came from Web2C 2025, dated 24 January 1999 — old enough to be vintage, still serving looks 💖🎀✨ mwah, go copy some DVI files 🌸🦋💜