Re: TeX and PDF

[Johann Spies <jhspies@futurenet.co.za>]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Jim McCloskey wrote:

> 
> |>  i want to turn this into a pdf so i can get hard copy and stick it
> |> on my wall.  i can get hard copy (and stick it on a wall :) myself,
> |> the problem is turning it into a pdf.
> 
> The standard tetex distribution includes pdftex. Simply running:
> 
>      pdftex foo
> 
> on the file `foo.tex' should produce foo.pdf.
> 
> Jim

And if that does not produce the desired result, do a 
latex foo
dvips foo
ps2pdf foo.ps

Johann.

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