Tzafrir Cohen
Sun, 05 Aug 2001 12:49:39 -0700
On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Eli Billauer wrote: > 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. Why terrible PDFs? PDFs created from latex-generated postscript are rather nice. If you want to add hyperlinks, you can use the hyperref package (doesn't work well with hebrew, though). > > 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. tetex already comes with pdftex, which is an alternative tex engine that produces pdf inssted of dvi. As with tex, you don't cal it directly, but you call pdflatex or pdfelatex . Should work with Hebrew as well. > > 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 Why use acrobat reader? (xpdf is nice, if gv won't do. gv has a very handy feature here of automatically updating, like xdvi) > * 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. You generally can't include EPS pics. You have to convert them to PDF. > > 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? ps2pdf works just fine for me (there are many format conversions along the awy, but I have long ago written a nice Makefile to handle all of those conversions) -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir