I have the same problem with xdvi from texlive/ubuntu. Starting xdvi in a shell yields
Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Unable to load any usable fontset an Xdvi warning window opens up with the message Couldn't allocate enough colors - expect low display quality. Finally the display quality is very low, slanted characters are badly truncated. dpkg -l tex\* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name Version Description +++-==============-==============-============================================ un tex-chess <none> (no description available) ii tex-common 0.25 Common infrastructure for using and building un tex-skak <none> (no description available) ii tex4ht 20060619-1 LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML) - executa ii tex4ht-common 20060619-1 LaTeX and TeX for Hypertext (HTML) - support un texdoctk <none> (no description available) un texi2html <none> (no description available) un texidoc <none> (no description available) ii texinfo 4.8.dfsg.1-1ub Documentation system for on-line information un texlib <none> (no description available) ii texlive-base 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Essential programs and files ii texlive-base-b 2005.dfsg.1-1u TeX Live: Essential binaries ii texlive-bibtex 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Extra BibTeX styles ii texlive-chemis 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Chemical typesetting ii texlive-common 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Base component ii texlive-contex 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: ConText macro package ii texlive-doc-ba 2005-2 TeX Live: Base documentation ii texlive-doc-en 2005-2 TeX Live: English documentation ii texlive-doc-fr 2005-2 TeX Live: French documentation ii texlive-doc-it 2005-2 TeX Live: Italian documentation ii texlive-extra- 2005.dfsg.1-1u TeX Live: TeX auxiliary programs ii texlive-font-u 2005.dfsg.1-1u TeX Live: TeX font-related programs ii texlive-fonts- 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Extra fonts ii texlive-fonts- 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Recommended fonts ii texlive-format 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Extra formats ii texlive-games 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Games typesetting (chess, etc) ii texlive-generi 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Miscellaneous extra generic macros ii texlive-generi 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Miscellaneous generic macros ii texlive-lang-f 2005-2 TeX Live: French ii texlive-lang-g 2005-2 TeX Live: German ii texlive-lang-i 2005-2 TeX Live: Italian ii texlive-lang-l 2005-2 TeX Live: Latin ii texlive-latex- 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Basic LaTeX packages ii texlive-latex- 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: LaTeX supplementary packages ii texlive-latex- 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages ii texlive-latex3 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Experiment LaTeX3 packages ii texlive-math-e 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Advanced math typesetting ii texlive-metapo 2005.dfsg.1-1u TeX Live: MetaPost (and Metafont) drawing pa ii texlive-music 2005.dfsg.1-1u TeX Live: Music typesetting ii texlive-omega 2005.dfsg.1-1u TeX Live: Omega ii texlive-pdfete 2005.dfsg.1-1u TeX Live: pdfTeX ii texlive-pictur 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Drawing and graphing packages ii texlive-plain- 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Plain TeX supplementary packages ii texlive-pstric 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: PSTricks packages ii texlive-publis 2005.dfsg.1-1 TeX Live: Support for publishers un texmacs <none> (no description available) ii texmaker 1.4-1ubuntu2 A Cross-Platform LaTeX Editor un texpower <none> (no description available) un texpsfnt <none> (no description available) -- Xdvi shows poor rendering quality https://launchpad.net/bugs/58987 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
