On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:06:56AM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: > Hi all, > > I am fairly new to latex, so this could easily be something I am doing > wierd, but... > > When I use latex to convert a source file into a dvi, the dvi looks > great. Then when I use either dvips->gs or dvipdf to convert the dvi > into a pdf, the pdf looks OK in acroread but unintelligable in xpdf. > It just comes out as a series of lines of dots on the page. The > commands I am using are: > > # latex source.tex > # dvips source.dvi > # gs -sOutputFile=source.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite source.ps > > or > > # dvipdf source.dvi source.pdf
From the man page, it looks like dvipdf just automates the dvips/gs
combination. For (yet another) different approach, try dvipdfm. The
author believes it to be more 'in the spirit of TeX' than pdflatex,
since it follows the standard "source -> dvi -> something" path.
Anyways, it works well for me. And if you want both a dvi file and a pdf
file it's a lot faster than running pdflatex and latex separately.
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