The gnome document viewer, evince, is able to preview dvi files. Double-clicking on a dvi icon brings up the viewer and it runs the necessary TeX programs to generate the fonts it needs. xdvipdfmx does not have xdvi either; it's XeTeX-aware dvi to pdf converter. So, it has been superseded. On 07/05/2012 09:28 AM, Alec T. Habig wrote: > If I had to guess, people probably are previewing the .ps/.pdf rather > than the intermediary step, now that the viewers for those are pretty > quick and standard. I certainly haven't used xdvi in years (although > it's nice to know it's still there). >