>> I believe I've solved the dvipdfm problem.
>
>For what reason is dvipdfm in the code anyway?
>
>Sounds like Axiom uses tex->dvi->pdf instead of directly going with
>pdflatex: .tex -> .pdf. Or am I missing something?

History, actually. At one point Axiom was going to use an open
source dvi viewer as part of the hyperdoc interface. Thus all
pamphlets were translated to a dvi final format.

The later transition from standalone pamphlets to book format
introduced PDF files and dvipdfm.

Tim

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