dvired(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

💖 dvired(1) 💖

okay bestie, this is the dvired page from the teTeX manual, and honestly? it's giving "I do one thing and I do it cute." let's get into it ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

dvired — print dvi-files 🖨️✨

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

dvired [ options ] file

👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

so here's the tea, bestie: dvired behaves like dvips, EXCEPT for the fact that two logical pages are put onto each physical sheet of paper. yes. two. per sheet. it's eco-friendly, it's cozy, it's iconic. 🍓

for options, go look at dvips(1) — that's where the real menu is. this program only interprets the following options:

  • -o file — redirect output into file.
  • -P printer — direct output to printer.
  • -f — direct output to stdout.

any other option? not her problem, she just passes it directly to dvips. 💅 no cap.

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

it is assumed that the PRINTER-variable is set. (set it, bestie. do it for her. 🫶)

  • dvired -Plw foo — send output to printer lw.
  • dvired -o foo.ps foo — send output to file foo.ps.
  • dvired -pp4-7 foo — send 4 pages (reduced onto 2 sheets) of foo to the printer.
  • dvired foo -f | ghostview - - — preview output with ghostview.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

dvips(1)

💀 BUGS 💀

dvired is fixed on A4 paper size. if you want to use it with other paper, you have to change the settings within the source. yeah. the source. we don't make the rules, we just live here 😭

🎀 AUTHOR 🎀

Thomas Esser <te@dbs.uni-hannover.de> — king behavior, honestly 👑

and that's the whole vibe check, bestie: this page came from teTeX, dated 09/94, and it ate. no crumbs. periodt 💅🌸🦋

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