# The option dialog

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# Chapter 2. The option dialog

# 2.1. Font Options

The following picture shows the options dialog of kdvi.

Resolution/Metafont mode

  These options specify the fonts which kdvi will use for rendering. By carefully optimizing the settings here it is possible to improve on the display. However, unless you are an expert in MetaFont and know what you are doing, it is absolutely no good idea to change these options. Save values are "600" and "ljfour" for good quality or "300" and "cx" for medium quality and faster display.

Generate fonts

  Check this if you want kdvi to call the MetaFont program in the likely case that kdvi wants to display documents which use fonts which are not yet readily made. You most certainly want to set this option.

PK font path

  If this is not empty, it points to a list of directories to be searched for pk-fonts, e.g.

       /var/lib/texmf/fonts/pk/ljfour/:/some/other/place

  You can make kdvi search recursively by adding an extra / at the end of directory name:

       /var/lib/texmf/fonts//

  This works like xdvi's XDVIFONTS environment variable. There is also good (gnu info) documentation available for the kpathsea library that kdvi uses for font searching. This makes kdvi usable when you have some other tex system than tetex and don't have the texmf.cnf file. Again this option is strikly for the experts only.

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