[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Sebastian Rahtz wrote: > > > > On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 02:02:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Is it possible to setup tetex to produce postscript files instead of > > > dvi? I find that I'm almost always converting the dvi to ps, either for > > > printing or even on-screen viewing ... I can type 'dvips ...; gv ...' > > > almost in my sleep. > > > > this is why god (or other deity of your choice) gave you > > pdftex. just use pdftex followed by xpdf|gv|acroread. > > 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 > familiar with pdf, except that I know that xpdf doesn't display type3 > fonts properly and acroread is huge and slow. Is there some overwhelming > reason to use pdf instead of ps?
For printing, no, for electronic distribution of documents, yes. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
