On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:15:37PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote:
>
> No, there *is* a program dvipdf (part of tetex).
Oops. My apologies.
> In addition to this, though, there does seem to be a separate package
> dvipdfm (which I hadn't known about before your message: thank you).
>
> It's only available in unstable though---not in testing or in stable.
>
> Is its principal advantage that it has better support for inclusion of
> JPEG and PNG files and that it does a better job of displaying
> bitmapped fonts? That's what its web-page seems to suggest,
Actually, the principle advantage that I've found is that I don't have to
do anything special to make pdftex happy. I can build the document as if my
target were postscript, and then convert from .dvi to .pdf. The included
graphics are .eps as always. It does a much better job with bitmapped fonts,
yes. I don't know about jpeg or png files, I always use eps.
Mike
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