dvicopy(1)

dvicopy1

Produce modified copy of dvi file

Usage

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

Overview

dvicopy reads a DVI file, expands any references to virtual fonts to base fonts, and writes the resulting DVI file. Thus you can use virtual fonts even if your DVI processor does not support them, by passing the documents through dvicopy first.

The odvitype program does the same job for Omega/Aleph's output, modified to support their .ofm font format.

Options

-magnification=NUMBER

Override existing magnification with NUMBER.

-max-pages=NUMBER

Process NUMBER pages; default one million.

-page-start=PAGE-SPEC

Start at PAGE-SPEC, for example `2' or `5.*.-2'.

The standard -help and -version options are also supported.

Releases

16 releases since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); the text changed 14 times.

  1. 2.0–2.1
  2. 2.2
  3. 3.0
  4. 3.1
  5. 4.0
  6. 5.0
  7. 6.0
  8. 7
  9. 8
  10. 9
  11. 10
  12. 11
  13. 12
  14. 13
  15. Arch

-magnification since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -max-pages since Debian 7 (Wheezy); -page-start since Debian 7 (Wheezy).

Authors

Peter Breitenlohner wrote the program. Klaus Guntermann originally ported it to Unix. Yannis Haralambous and John Plaice created the Omega version.

Public discussion list and bug reports: https://lists.tug.org/tex-k

From texlive-doc 2026.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.