On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 01:42:37PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > So far I've used the latex <file> command to compile a .dvi file for > viewing; What's the best way to process a .tex file into a .pdf? At least two ways: latex to make a dvi (device independant format) dvipdf to turn it into a pdf pdflatex to go from latex to pdf directly. Depending on the details in the file, one may work better than the other. Doug.