Bug#93004: tetex-base: pdftex option in graphicx package doesn't latex-compile

[Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org>]

Javier Ruiz Hidalgo <jrh@gps.tsc.upc.es> writes:

> 	"pdflatex" creates a .pdf directly, I wanted to go to a .dvi so I
> could use 'dvipdft' to create a bookmarked-thumbnailed-with_links version
> of the pdf document directly from latex code. "pdflatex" does parse the
> document but produces a "simple" pdf without does features (unless
> specifically included :-(

You've still confused me.  

With 

\usepackage{hyperref} 
\usepackage{thumbpdf}
(and an intermediate run of thumbpdf)

you can get thumbnails and links directly from LaTeX code.  Take a
look at http://www.springies.com/~ats/thesis.pdf and
http://www.springies.com/~ats/thesis.tex for an example.  (I'd go a
step further and use pdfopt to linearize it, but there's a gs bug
outstanding.)

I'm fairly sure you need hyperref to get links with dvipdf[mt], so
that shouldn't be a problem.

But you can still use dvipdfm to compile things, you just can't use
the "pdftex" option to graphicx (or anything else) because you aren't
using pdftex.  (The \specials are different.)  Use the

\usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphicx}

etc.

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