Re: Avoiding dvi files

2002-03-27 Thread Mats Bengtsson
To be truthful, I'd not even thought of pdf(la)tex. Yes, this may be a reasonable solution...expect that it produces pdf, not ps, files. I'm not sure, but I think that to print pdf files to my postscript printer they first would need to be converted to ps. I'm really not all that Have your

DVIPS does not find the PK files

2002-03-27 Thread D. Taupin (wanadoo-lps)
I have some fonts put in the place where kpsewhich finds them. But dvips (the dvips.exe from TeXLive 6b) does not find them and generates them and puts them in the working directory. -- Where (which file[s]) should I look to find the cause of that problem? --

Re: Avoiding dvi files

2002-03-27 Thread John Murdie
On 26 Mar, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: On Sun, Mar 24, 2002 at 06:04:50PM +, Helen McCall wrote: I have the set of Adobe Postscript manuals and cookbook etc as published by Addison Wesley which I bought some years ago. Is there a similar set of books as a definitive reference to PDF? If so

Re: Avoiding dvi files

2002-03-27 Thread Martin Schroeder
On 2002-03-26 10:36:26 +, Sebastian Rahtz wrote: You can download the entire spec for PDF from Adobe's web site. I don't think its formally published any more. But of course it is: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758393/ :-) Best regards Martin --

Re: Avoiding dvi files

2002-03-27 Thread George White
On Sun, 24 Mar 2002, Helen McCall wrote: Having long hated Postscript hacking, I would like to use pdf in my programming as well if it is easier. I have the set of Adobe Postscript [...] For a TeX-based workflow, metapost is worth considering. Metapost PS files are already flattened and can

Avoiding dvi files ps files (off topic?)

2002-03-27 Thread Kalyan Mukherjea
Hello teTeXnicians, I have been reading this thread in a slightly bemused fashion. At first, it seemed that someone didn't like typing the same dvips + gv command over and over again. But surely that is easily solved by using Emacs + AucTeX AucTeX helps track LaTeX errors and once no