hi there, and welcome in the LaTeX world!
short answer: always use pdflatex (LaTeX => PDF), so that you can
benefit of all the pdf functionalities (such as: hyperlinks, bookmarks
and so on).
Since LaTeX was born before the pdf (de facto) standard, at the
beginning the outputs were DVI (stands for DeVice Indipendent) or
PostScript (standard printer language).
So, in case you don't have specific requirements, I suggest you to use
always pdflatex, since (in my opinion) there is no significant
difference in quality for documents printed from pdf or ps.
happy latex-ing!
Alessandro
Il 16/10/2009 16:24, Michael Zylla ha scritto:
Hi,
i'm new to ProTeXt and although i'm working with it for only some days i'm
really happy with it. But now i have a suggestion and a questions. At first the
suggestion:
After installing MiKTeX, TeXnicCenter, Ghostscript and GSView in this order
(like it's recommended in the installation guide), i only found the following
output formats in TeXnicCenter:
LaTeX=>DVI (opened with Yap)
LaTeX=>PDF (opened with Acrobat)
LaTeX=>PS (opened with Distiller and after that with Acrobat)
I wondered why i had installed Ghostscript and GSView because it wasn't used.
So i decided to uninstall TeXnicCenter and reinstall it. After that i had the
following output formats:
LaTeX=>DVI (opened with Yap)
LaTeX=>PDF (opened with Acrobat)
LaTeX=>PS (opened with GSView)
LaTeX=>PS=>PDF (opened with Acrobat)
So i installed everything in the order MikTeX, Ghostscript, GSView and at last
TeXnicCenter. Wouldn't this be more reasonable or am i making a mistake?
These different output formats now lead me to my question:
If i'm right, i can create a PDf document in the following ways:
LaTeX=>PDf
LaTeX=>PS=>PDF
LaTeX=>PS and use the Distiller after that
How do these three options vary in their kind of creation? And which one leads
to the best result for a printed document? Or are there maybe yet
another/better ways for a creation?
Best regards,
Michael
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