From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: dvipdf vs buildt-in converter to pdf?? Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:17:31 +0200 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: <85d5c79qhg.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <87y7uvwvfg.fsf@tiger.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152956459 19101 80.91.229.2 (15 Jul 2006 09:40:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 09:40:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 15 11:40:59 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G1gdr-0006iQ-68 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 11:40:56 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G1gdq-0005ds-Ls for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 05:40:54 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9wK6ZYEh6dPxIYjx3oxRA2AqeMU= Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 15 Jul 2006 11:17:54 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 94bf4611.newsread2.arcor-online.net Original-X-Trace: DXC=53eV74Njn8UWlBlPAT_ljXQ5U85hF6f; TjW\KbG]kaMXGSi?jHD8GOP`YVCG08K2jS1_LiI6ENVa]3>5MOK`O=R[GD5P List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:35977 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa 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). -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum