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Generating PS/PDF Documents

PS and PDF documents are generated by so-called drivers. The name of the driver is to be specified as an option in the following notes: Figures, Colours, PDF Hyper References

• Driver: dvips
  • First variant:

    latex <file>.tex
    dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o <file>.ps <file>.dvi
    ps2pdf -dPDFsettings=/prepress -o <file>.pdf <file>.ps
    

  • Second variant:

    latex <file>.tex
    dvipdf <file>.tex
    

• Driver: pdftex

  pdflatex <file>.tex
  

• Driver: dvipdfm
  • Plain:

    latex <file>.tex
    dvipdfm <file>.dvi
    

  • With thumbnails:

    latex <file>.tex
    dvipdfm -e -z0 <file>.dvi
    gs -r10 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=png256 -sOutputFile=<file>.%d <file>.pdf
    dvipdfm <file>
    

• How to tell apart pdftex and other drivers:

  \ifx\pdftexversion\undefined
      \usepackage[dvips]{graphics} %\usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphics}
  \else
      \usepackage[pdftex]{graphics}
  \fi
  

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