Re: [OT] LaTeX

[Sarunas Burdulis <sarunas@math.dartmouth.edu>]

Andrei Popescu wrote:
> 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?
> 
> I don't know if this is the best, but I found the option -output-format 
> to latex. You can specify dvi (default) or pdf. There might be a config 
> file somewhere that makes pdf the default.
> 
> Regards,
> Andrei

'pdflatex <latexfile>' will produce latexfile.pdf.

Alternatively, use dvips (dvi->postscript) and then ps2pdf.

Sarunas