Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-16 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:15:37PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > |> It's dvipdfm actually, located in the package by the same name. I > |> love it work. > > No, there *is* a program dvipdf (part of tetex). > > In addition to this, though, there does seem to be a separate package > dvipdfm (w

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:15:37PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > No, there *is* a program dvipdf (part of tetex). Oops. My apologies. > In addition to this, though, there does seem to be a separate package > dvipdfm (which I hadn't known about before your message: thank you). > > It's on

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-16 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> It's dvipdfm actually, located in the package by the same name. I |> love it work. No, there *is* a program dvipdf (part of tetex). In addition to this, though, there does seem to be a separate package dvipdfm (which I hadn't known about before your message: thank you). It's only availabl

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-16 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 08:25:14PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > There was a *long* thread about this on the list recently. Search the > archives. Briefly, the options are: > > . run pdftex or pdflatex, rather than tex or latex, on the source file > . run dvipdf after the initial TeX run

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-16 Thread Paul Huygen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tiarnan O Corrain) asked: > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps > ones? Many people answered this question. One way to achieve this, is to first convert the dvi into a ps, and then convert the ps to pdf. However, at least dvips uses fixed-bitmapped fo

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread kmself
on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:04:10AM +, Tiarnan O Corrain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:38:54PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > > > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sur

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Jim McCloskey
> Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. There was a *long* thread about this on the list recently. Search the archives. Briefly, the options are: . run pdftex or pdflatex, rather than tex or late

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread John Griffiths
>> Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? > >Do you know what package they're in, or whether they're available to >install using apt-get? apt-get install gs that will get you ghostscript which contains most of the utilities you need apt-get install xpdf or xpdf-i if you use non-US has

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:46:43PM +, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > Dear All, > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. dvipdfm is my favorite method. Works far better than ps2pdf IMHO. Mi

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Tiarnan O Corrain
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 06:38:54PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. > > > > Help much appreciated > > Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? Do you kn

re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread James Lindenschmidt
There is a ghostscript utility called 'ps2pdf' that will convert a postscript to a .pdf file. Syntax is: ps2pdf input_file.ps output_file.pdf See man ps2pdf for more info. PDF is a compressed version of PS, as far as I know... > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones?

Re: Making PDF files from dvi - word of warning

2001-01-15 Thread John Griffiths
>> Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I >> believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. >> >> Help much appreciated > >Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? PDF's made with proprietary Adobe software get amazingly small file sizes throu

Re: Making PDF files from dvi

2001-01-15 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 09:46:43PM +, Tiarnan O Corrain wrote: > Dear All, > > Does anyone know any utility to make pdf files from dvi or ps ones? I > believe pdf is just an enhanced version of ps, but am not sure. > > Help much appreciated Like dvipdf or dvipdfm or dvips and ps2pdf ? --