I don't want to increase the confusion, but just a few remarks: Tuukka Toivonen wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Hanxue Lee wrote: > > >>1. Through GNU Ghostscript (first option in menu) >>2. Through PDF latex (second option in menu) >>Which one produces a higher quality output? >> > > In my opinion, pdflatex creates higher quality output, > but it is more difficult to use. > > - if you use pdflatex, your images must be in PDF format. > But LyX can't then show them. If you use ps2pdf, the format for your images should be PS - and then LyX can display them. > - With pdflatex, you can use hyperlinks with package hyperref. > I don't know if it works with usual LaTeX which goes > to PostScript (I would guess not). Also possible with ps2pdf. > - With pdflatex you can set the document title, keywords etc. > that'll show with Acroread (not with xpdf :( ) No problem with package hyperref that you can use with ps2pdf, too > > Also, some latex document that I have written don't work with > pdflatex, but only with latex. I don't know why, they should. > > > The only thing you should know when using ps2pdf (coming with Ghostscript): As far as I know, the newer Ghostscript versions (I'm talking about Aladdin's) - say: new than 6.0 - are a bit buggy. It means that images aren't displayed very well (they appear quite semary). I use 5.50 and the PDF output looks fine. hth Stephan -- Stephan E. Schlierf M.A. Leiter Konzeptentwicklung & Design speed2web GmbH Gottlieb-Keim-Str. 23 95448 Bayreuth phone: ++49 921 99008612 fax: ++49 921 99008670 web: http//www.speed2web.de
