Re: dvipdf vs buildt-in converter to pdf??

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.07.2006 um 08:36 schrieb pop:

> I use auctex. If I use latex built-in 'pdflatex' I need to have my  
> pictures
> in a .pdf format. But if I just want to see the dvi output I need  
> to have
> them in .eps. So far I have had both a .pdf version and a .eps  
> version of
> the pictures and included them like:

Have you thought of a PDF viewer as substitute for xdvi? There are  
free ones that work better then commercial products. When you have  
teTeX you can use texdoc as universal script to view teTeX  
documentation or as tex-dvi-view-command.

IMO the route with DVI output is out-dated. PDF is the way today.  
Tomorrow: ?

You could try to set tex-dvi-print-command to a script that uses  
dvipdfm to convert DVI to PDF -- and in the end it should print the  
PDF file (or use tex-alt-dvi-print-command for this purpose).

Or, set *tex-run-command(s) to scripts that do two things: invoking  
some *TeX engine (plain tex, latex, xetex, xelatex, slitex, ...) +  
upon success dvipdfm.


pdfTeX also supports PNG, GIF, JPEG, and could be TIFF, too, but no  
PS or EPS. Ps4pdf or pstricks have learned to convert (E)PS to PDF on  
the fly.

--
Greetings

  Pete

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