Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Op 13-05-10 23:40, Merciadri Luca schreef: > >> Sven Joachim wrote: >> Thanks for this answer. There are *many* reasons not to use pdfLaTeX. >> They do not enter in the scope of this mailing list, but I am pretty >> sure you will find them directly on the Internet. For example, pdfLaTeX >> encourages one to use directly JPG, etc., for the inclusion in the >> document, which is pretty bad. There are also many incompatibilities >> with different packages. >> > Or png or pdf which basically is eps or even real eps via the epstopdf > package. > / > Sorry, pdflatex offers more choice. That's not a bad thing. > I do not agree, sorry. PDFLaTeX generally write bigger PDFs, simply because there is no compression (consider for example http://www.tug.org/pipermail/pdftex/2004-June/005046.html). Moreover, I think that psTricks does not work with PDFLaTeX (you need to use PDFTricks).
I also vaguely remember about many situations where, if I had had to use PDFLaTeX, I would not have been able to produce the same document, because I would have had to change many packages which were incompatible. You might ask on comp.text.tex, this is a better place for this, because this is my point of view, and it is not shared by the whole community. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. (F. W. Robertson)
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