What is a .DVI file?
DVI was TeX’s original device-independent output format before PDF.
- Did you know
- DVI was the page format TeX produced before PDF became the standard.
- The DVI output format was designed by David R. Fuchs in 1979 and adopted by Donald Knuth’s TeX82.
- DVI is a binary list of page-placement instructions that names no specific printer, font file or display - hence “device independent”.
- What Analyser reads
- Open documents, ebooks and publishing files beyond Office: comic books (CBZ/CBT with ComicInfo + first-page preview; CBR/CB7 identified), Microsoft XPS, FictionBook FB3, iBooks, Scrivener, Visio VSDX, R Markdown/Quarto, RTFD, WARC/MAFF web archives, TeX DVI, legacy Hangul HWP, and WordPerfect/QuarkXPress/PageMaker identification.
- Depth of analysis
- .DVI is an identification-grade format: Analyser recognises it from its bytes and decodes the header metadata it carries, rather than opening it in a full viewer. Formats that do get a full viewer are marked "Full" on the formats page.
- Open a .DVI file
- Drag a .DVI file onto the Analyser home page (or tap to pick one). It is identified entirely in your browser - nothing is uploaded, there is no account, and it works offline once installed.