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

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> 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.

Outdated or not, DVI viewers beat the pants off PDF in terms of
viewing speed and user interface (they offer reasonably well working
forward and backward search using Source Specials, for example).

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