[lug] LaTeX and distilling to PDF

[Hugh Brown]

The eps figures was what I was referring to for the image formats.  I know
that pdflatex accepts jpeg.  I don't know what other image formats it will
accept.

Hugh


"J. Wayde Allen"
> 
> On Fri, 18 May 2001, Hugh Brown wrote:
> 
> > There's another utility called pdflatex that you can use.
> > 
> > In place of your dvips line I would run pdflatex documentsource.tex and
> > then look for the resulting documentsource.pdf
> > 
> > I don't know if it will meet your requirements or not, but it is another
> > mode for generating pdf.
> > 
> > pdflatex doesn't accept the same image formats as latex does (pdflatex will use
> > jpeg but the quality tends to be poor).
> 
> Yes, after I sent out that question I did a "man -k pdf | more" lookup to
> see what I could find.  That gave me:  pdfetex, pdfevirtex, pdfinitex,
> pdfjadetex, pdflatex, and pdftex.  I copied my source files to a new
> directory and tried pdftex, pdfetex, and pdfelatex.  The first two bombed
> on my \documentclass{article} line.  The last one, pdfelatex, seems to
> work.  The resulting pdf file text also looks clean, but alas my eps
> figures don't show up - damn!
> 
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at lug.boulder.co.us)
> 
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