On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Vijay Deval wrote:

> A .dvi file can ve converted directly to pdf. I tried the following
> command
>                         #dvipdf input.dvi output.pdf

dvipdf is basically a script which generates a postscript and then
converts it. One can use pdftex to generate pdf, the only hassle being
it cannot use eps files, one can use jpg formats for them.

There's one problem with the latex->ps->pdf route. It generally uses the
bitmapped fonts, which for one doesnt render too well on screen, and
defeats searching stuff. One can force type 1 fonts to be used by making
changes in /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.ps by adding a line
p <yourfontmap.map>

But dvips generally comes with a type 1 font map configured for generating pdf
, so if you have the file /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/config.pdf you can
use dvips -Ppdf

-- sreangsu



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