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Re: New (to me) DVI->PDF converter
Jorge Godoy wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Mark" == Mark Komarinski <markk@cgipc.com> writes:
>
> Mark> Just found this on freshmeat:
> Mark> http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/index.htm
>
> Mark> The dvipdfm program goes from DVI to PDF (I hope you figured
> Mark> that out by now). Seems to make use of the TeX \special tag
> Mark> to do stuff, and that's about the extent of my TeX
> Mark> knowledge.
>
> Mark> Could this be the replacement for JadeTeX we're looking for?
>
> I haven't looked at it, yet, but:
>
> - Does it makes links on PDF? PDFJadetex does... And it goes from TeX
> to PDF, with no DVI on the process.
The best answer for the capabilities is probably the online manual.
Bookmarks, internal links, text formatting, PNG/EPS/PDF graphics support,
thumbnails, and annotation are supported.
Looks like there's a separate DVI driver for dvipdfm. Again, I'm not a TeX
expert, so I'm off on "make it all up and hope I sound smart" mode.
> - How good is its output?
Good. I'm having trouble getting the LAG into DVI format, but
a very simple DocBook document I made went just fine into PDF.
>
> I think that we also want to get PostScript from our sources... We are
> still needing Jadetex at LDP...
*grumble mutter* darn tool limitations...
-Mark
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