Re: Not understanding pdflatex
David P James wrote:
>Gary Turner wrote:
>
[...]
>> [la]tex sample
>> dvips -Ppdf sample
>> ps2pdf sample.ps
>>
>> This should yield a pdf file that Acroread can render nicely.
>>
>
>Really? It usually comes out looking pretty awful if you ask me when
>looked at with Acroread. I've had much more success with:
I suspect you left off the printer switch ( -Ppdf ). That switch seems
to be the key.
>
>texi2pdf sample.tex
>
>This seems to compile rather than convert (no surprise really). It also
>generates smaller pdf files than ps2pdf or dvipdf, which generates just
On my test file, tex->dvi->ps->pdf => 34K
tex->dvi->pdf => 64K
See the URLs below.
>as ugly pdfs, at least where Acroread is concerned. Compare the
>following in Acroread:
>
>http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/debian/assign01ps.pdf
>http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/debian/assign01dvi.pdf
Yep, ugly as mud. Fortunately they should print nicely.
>http://members.rogers.com/dpjames/debian/assign01tex.pdf
This looks like what my procedure produces. I couldn't replicate your
steps as I know nothing about texinfo format. texi2pdf chokes on a
plain LaTeX file and spits out dvi+errors. dvi2pdf makes ugly on
Acroread without the intermediate step.
See:
http://rcu.dyndns.biz/sample.pdf
tex -> dvi2ps -Ppdf -> ps2pdf
http://rcu.dyndns.biz/sample2.pdf
texi2pdf -> dvi2pdf
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