LaTeX and PDF

[Eli Billauer]

Hi All,

You might already know this, but just in case you didn't: The days, when
you got nice PS files from LaTeX, but terrible PDF's, are over.

My Mandrake 7.0 allowed me to go "latexpdf myfile.tex" exactly as I
would do "latex myfile.tex" and get a PDF instead of DVI. And it looks
quite nice.

Even better, you may download the dvipdfm package at
http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/ . It appears to me that the results
are even more smooth.

What you DON'T get with both of these:
* Slow screen update with Acrobat Viewer
* Disgusting font, with bumpy letters.

In short, you get that professional look. The only thing that didn't
work was my texdraw figures, but I guess that will be fixed soon, as
common such a project.

For me, the installation was as difficult as writing the rpm command.
The results came out nicely right away. I tried it with some my lecture
slides, and got something that looks like it should, when viewed under
Windows' Acrobat Reader.

Does anyone still have any doubts?

   Eli