[geeks] TeX (etc); dvi -> pdf

[Ferris McCormick]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002 geeks-request at sunhelp.org wrote:

> 	geeks at sunhelp.org
>    5. Re: Re: TeX, etc (Joshua D Boyd)
>

In response to the question about the TeX dvi -> pdf translator:

  The program is called 'dvipdfm';  If you have a SuSE Linux
distribution lying around, just pull the source off it.  Otherwise,
it is available at
<ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/TeX/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm/>

  It runs fine on Solaris, but you also need postsript font files
for the TeX fonts if you don't have them.  The INSTALL file that comes
with the source explains everything.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Ferris 
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> 
> Message: 5
> From: Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu>
> Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2002 00:52:50 -0500
> To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [geeks] Re: TeX, etc
> Reply-To: geeks at sunhelp.org
> 
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2002 at 07:44:43PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 01:15:44AM +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> > > There are several others I consult as needed.  If you can give some
> > > ideas about what you want to use it for, I (or someone) might have
> > > some thoughts;  otherwise, I suppose Diller/Goossens in combination
> > > make as painless an introduction as any.
> > 
> > I also ordered the TeXbook, THEN found out I could download it as a .tex
> > file and print it out myself.  d'oh!
> 
> Where do you download it?  I'm poking at google, but not finding anything.
>  
> > > Another approach you can look at is using the LyX package if you
> > > don't care for backslashes (I don't use the package, but its documentation
> > > is pretty good.)
> > 
> > I'm looking at this right now in fact - got it installing on my Win32 and
> > *nix boxes as we "speak".
> 
> I didn't care for it, but others may feel differently.  I'm a purist.  
> Python, emacs, and latex (Sorry, I want to avoid as much of the \s as I
> can, so I have a python preprocessor).
>  
> > > Let me know if I can be of any assistance; I am a TeX fanatic when
> > > it comes to documentation, and I won't use anything else (there is a
> > > good (and free) dvi->pdf converter which solves communications
> > > problems with people who like WYSIWYG word processors on commonly
> > > used PC-based systems.)
> 
> Where is it?  I've used pdflatex at school, but the resulting pdf files have
> always sucked.  I've gotten much better results with latex -> dvips -> 
> [ghostscript | ps2pdf].
> 
> 
> -- 
> Joshua D. Boyd
> 
> 

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