Re: Making PDF files from dvi - word of warning

[John Griffiths <john@capmon.com>]

>> Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I 
>> believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure.
>> 
>> Help much appreciated
>
>Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ?

PDF's made with proprietary Adobe software get amazingly small file sizes through the use of the encumbered LZW compression algorithm as well as a lot of prorietary font wizardry.

while usefull in some circumstances the GNU pdf utilities won't get you a comparable result to the proprietary Acrobat ones (both in look or in file size).

Adobe do sell an Acrobat Distiller Server for linux which would do all this (once u have a postscript file) but you might well have financial or ideological reasons for not wanting to do this.