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

[Javier Ruiz Hidalgo <jrh@gps.tsc.upc.es>]

Hi Christoph, Alan,

	Thanks for your replies,

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:

> You've still confused me.

	I'm sorry, my latex-pdf knowledge if far, far away from "ok" :-(
Anyways, i'll try to clarify myself a little bit.

	I wanted to create a pdf from my latex file. Tried using
"pdflatex" in a quick way but that didn't work (thumbs and bookmarks
don't show up as I'm using a non-standard style file for a conference
paper). Asked a colegue of mine (using redhat) and told
me his method was use "dvipdfm" with the package "epstopdf" to
automatically convert your .eps files into .pdf and to create a .dvi
suitable for the script "dvipdft" to work flawlessly. In order to use
those package you also need [pdftex] as an option to graphicx as the
package "epstopdf" complains if that is not loaded.

	Tried that method on my .tex file on his computer and
worked ok, The .dvi was created and finally the .pdf. Trying to
latex-compile the same tex file on my debian machine complained
with the famous "Why not use PDF(Tex) binaries?"
that's way I thought about filling a bug report. TeX should be able to
compile the same document on different platforms so should be doing that
on different linux distributions ¿don't you think so? ;-)


-- 
javi.