Am Mittwoch, den 12.02.2020, 07:28 +0100 schrieb Jürgen Spitzmüller: > Am Dienstag, den 11.02.2020, 21:44 +0100 schrieb Martin Weise: > > Ok, here's something I (just) noticed: pdflatex, when run without > > arguments, produces a .dvi file from HelloWorld.tex. It is only if > > I > > specify "-output-format=pdf" that it creates a .pdf file. > > > > From what I understand, this is not what pdflatex should normally > > do. > > Try the following: > > Find the configuration file pdftexconfig.tex in the terminal via > > kpsewhich pdftexconfig.tex
... and if no such file is there, you need to create it, as indeed (and maybe surprisingly) pdf(la)tex _does_ produce DVI by default; it only produces PDF if advised so via \pdfoutput. I attach my (default TeXLive) configuration file for convenience. Jürgen
% tex-ini-files 2016-04-15: pdftexconfig.tex % Load shared (PDF) settings in pdfTeX % Enable PDF output \pdfoutput = 1 % Paper size: dimensions given in absolute terms \pdfpageheight = 297 true mm \pdfpagewidth = 210 true mm % Enable PDF 1.5 output and thus more compression \pdfminorversion = 5 \pdfobjcompresslevel = 2 % Low-level settings unlikely ever to need to change \pdfcompresslevel = 9 \pdfdecimaldigits = 3 \pdfpkresolution = 600 \pdfhorigin = 1 true in \pdfvorigin = 1 true in
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