Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-21 Thread Thomas Halahan
Mike I did compile dvipdfm a while ago. I have not used it much as it did not seem to offer me anything new in particular - but having said that I didn't really test it much. Q. What do you think dvipdfm is good at? I'm just curious to know when it might be useful. Tom On 21 4:34 am,

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-21 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Thu, Dec 21, 2000 at 08:32:34PM +0100, Thomas Halahan wrote: Mike I did compile dvipdfm a while ago. I have not used it much as it did not seem to offer me anything new in particular - but having said that I didn't really test it much. Q. What do you think dvipdfm is good at?

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:48:39AM +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: How about just using dvipdf if you don't need all those fancy pdf features? I personally find dvipdfm to be superb. ps2pdf does _not_ do nice output in my experience, but dvipdfm is used by me for all my pdfs. Mike --

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 06:38:55PM +0100, Thomas Halahan wrote: meant to add this my my 1st reply, I have heard that you can embed javascript in pdflatex files for presentations, for example. does anyone know if this is true? Yes. I saw a presentation or some such about it. Have a

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-19 Thread Shao Zhang
How about just using dvipdf if you don't need all those fancy pdf features? Shao. Thomas Halahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg, I use 2 ways 1) The ps route is good if you have lots of ps figures. pslatex filename.tex dvips filename -o ps2pdf filename.ps the pslatex embeds

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-18 Thread Thomas Halahan
Joerg, I use 2 ways 1) The ps route is good if you have lots of ps figures. pslatex filename.tex dvips filename -o ps2pdf filename.ps the pslatex embeds the fonts for you, it is like using \usepackage{times}. the ps2pdf results are better this way. you can then also use the psfrag

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-18 Thread Thomas Halahan
meant to add this my my 1st reply, I have heard that you can embed javascript in pdflatex files for presentations, for example. does anyone know if this is true? tom On 15 10:44 am, Joerg Johannes wrote: Well, thanks for everybody's suggestions. I have tried out this way: \pdfoutput=1

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
Well, thanks for everybody's suggestions. I have tried out this way: \pdfoutput=1 \documentclass[a4paper, pdftex]{report} \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpg} \begin{document} \includegraphics{somepicture} \end{document} That worked for me (not only with .jpg but also

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-14 Thread Cory T. Echols
On 12/13, Joerg Johannes wrote: To all pdflatex-users I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex -- xdvi shows them...). Do I have to include them in a

LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
To all pdflatex-users I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex -- xdvi shows them...). Do I have to include them in a special format (I tried .bmp, .png, .ps as

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread Martin Würtele
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:12:33AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: To all pdflatex-users I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex -- xdvi shows them...). Do I

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread Johann Spies
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 11:12:33AM +0100, Joerg Johannes wrote: To all pdflatex-users I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex -- xdvi shows them...). Do I

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread mcclosk
I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex -- xdvi shows them...). Do I have to include them in a special format (I tried .bmp, .png, .ps as input; latex --

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Jörg! Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It seems that pdflatex cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex -- xdvi shows them...). Do I have to include them in a special format (I tried .bmp, .png, .ps as input; latex -- dvi makes it all, but pdflatex just leaves space...) How