DVICOPY(1)

💖 DVICOPY — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is dvicopy(1) and its lil sibling odvicopy, from the Web2C 2026 era of the TeX manual pages. yes this is the DVI manual section. yes we're doing this. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

dvicopy, odvicopy — produce modified copy of DVI file 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

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

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

dvicopy reads a DVI file, expands any references to virtual fonts to base fonts, and writes the resulting DVI file. that's the whole plot ✨

so like, the reason this is iconic? you can use virtual fonts even if your DVI processor does not support them — you just pass the documents through dvicopy first. it's giving "middleman but make it helpful." 🔥

The odvitype program does the same job for Omega/Aleph's output, modified to support their .ofm font format. same energy, different font format, we love a flexible queen 🎀

⭐ OPTIONS ⭐

• -magnification=NUMBER — Override existing magnification with NUMBER. yes, we are simply picking a different NUMBER. no notes. 💖
• -max-pages=NUMBER — Process NUMBER pages; default one million. (one million, bestie. they said it, not me. 😭)
• -page-start=PAGE-SPEC — Start at PAGE-SPEC, for example `2' or `5.*.-2'. so real for that.

The standard -help and -version options are also supported. as they should be, honestly. 🫶

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

dviselect(1), dvitype(1).

• DVI processor topic on CTAN: https://ctan.org/topic/dvi-proc
• Package page on CTAN: https://ctan.org/pkg/dvicopy
• Section in the Web2c manual: https://tug.org/texinfohtml/web2c.html#dvicopy-invocation
• Typeset source code: https://ctan.org/pkg/knuth-pdf

go read them. iykyk. 📚

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Peter Breitenlohner wrote the program. Klaus Guntermann originally ported it to Unix. Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice created the Omega version. legends, all of them, periodt. 💜

Public discussion list and bug reports: https://lists.tug.org/tex-k — go drop your bugs there, they're literally waiting. 🍓

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okay that's the whole page!! this one is from the TeX corner of things, version tagged DVI, dated 30 November 2025, sourced straight from the Web2C 2026 pile. mwah, bye bestie, go copy some DVI files 💖✨🧚