.TH DVICOPY 1 TeX "24 January 1999" "Web2C 2025/dev"
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.SH NAME
dvicopy, odvicopy \- produce modified copy of DVI file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dvicopy
.RI [ options ]
.RI [ infile [ \fB.dvi\fP ]
.RI [ outfile [ \fB.dvi\fP ]]]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive.  The complete
documentation for this version of \*(TX can be found in the info file
or manual
.IR "Web2C: A TeX implementation" .
.PP
.B 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
.B dvicopy
first.
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.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-magnification= NUMBER
Override existing magnification with
.IR NUMBER .
.PP
.TP
.BI \-max-pages= NUMBER
Process
.I NUMBER
pages; default one million.
.PP
.TP
.BI \-page-start= PAGE-SPEC
Start at
.IR PAGE-SPEC ,
for example `2' or `5.*.-2'.
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR dviselect (1),
.BR dvitype (1).
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.SH AUTHORS
Peter Breitenlohner wrote the program.  Klaus Guntermann originally ported
it to Unix.