Especially for Reinhard: I would suggest to use pdflatex, if you don't have to rely on PS-'specials' based packages, for a number of reasons... [omitting to much OT]
If you decide to use it e.g. to include pdf-files or metapost, you should use newer versions, the last one is 1.00a. Have a look at ftp://ftp.muni.cz/pub/tex/local/cstug/thanh/pdftex/snapshots/20010806 For an update script see further below. And a really (nearly) complete solution to font problems in pdf docs: cm-super (it works with pdflatex for sure, it should also work with dvips) Especially for Ghibo: Generally: Do you know, if tetex distribution is currently maintained and evolving? Mdk: It would be nice to have current pdftex in tetex RPM. And maybe a cm-super addon? Ralf. *** #!/bin/sh # # e.g.: "cd /tmp; tar xf pdftex-20010806.tgz; cd src" # echo 'this script will fail if pwd is not .../src' pwd CFLAGS='-O2 -march=i686' ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --with-system-ncurses --with-system-zlib --with-system-pnglib \ --disable-multiplatform --without-dialog --without-texinfo \ --datadir=/usr/share --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --infodir=/usr/share/info i686-mandrake-linux cd texk/web2c/ ln -s `which tangle` . make tangle make pdftexbin && \ cp pdf*tex ttf2afm pdftosrc /usr/bin && \ cp pdf*.pool /usr/share/texmf/web2c cd /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ && \ texconfig init && \ pdftex --ini mptopdf
