On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 08:15:37PM -0800, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > |> It's dvipdfm actually, located in the package by the same name. I > |> love it work. > > No, there *is* a program dvipdf (part of tetex). > > In addition to this, though, there does seem to be a separate package > dvipdfm (which I hadn't known about before your message: thank you). > > It's only available in unstable though---not in testing or in stable. > > Is its principal advantage that it has better support for inclusion of > JPEG and PNG files and that it does a better job of displaying > bitmapped fonts? That's what its web-page seems to suggest,
It will use Type1 fonts (and embed them) which makes the bitmap font ugliness go away. It supposed to understand the hyperref specials as well (so cross-references, TOC page numbers, etc. become inter-document links -- nice). The nice thing about dvipdf(m) is the fonts and the direct line from dvi to pdf. I'm fuzzy recalling if dvipdf[m] turns eps graphics into bitmapped images or if vector and font properties are preserved (this can be a big deal and an advantage of the dvips, ps2pdf route). pdf[e]latex doesn't accept eps graphics, which marks it down in my book. -- Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
