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From: "Paul A. Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 2:56 PM
Subject: Re: No one answered a simple topic :(
Stephen Harris wrote:
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Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 1:23 PM
Subject: No one answered a simple topic :(
I just wanna know:
What's worth to use, PDF (dvipdfm) or PDF (pdflatex)? And why?
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It depends on what type of figures are in the document.
http://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/help/faqs/latex/conversions.shtml
Also, if you embed pgf commands in your document to produce graphics, I'm
pretty sure you have to use pdflatex (they won't appear in DVI output, or
at least not with any semblance to what you intended).
My impression is that there are nontrivial size differences among the
outputs from various methods, in those cases where all the methods are
capable of generating the right output. I'm not positive about that,
though (and don't recall which produces the smallest files).
Paul
I didn't know anything about pgf commands so I looked it up:
http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=drawing
"pgf: while pstricks is very powerful and convenient, using it with PDFLaTeX
is an awful fidget: if you simply want the graphical capabilities, pgf may
be a good bet for you. While PDF has (in essence) the same graphical
capabilities as PostScript, it isn't programmable; pgf provides common LaTeX
commands that will utilise the graphical capabilities of both PostScript and
PDF equally."
