Darren Freeman wrote:
On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 13:01 +0100, Abdelrazak Younes wrote:
Darren Freeman wrote:
Is it documented?
D:\devel\lyx\trunk\development\cmake\bin\release>lyx -help
Never ran that before :)
How do I tell which of the three pdf exports I'm
getting?
(And for that matter, why are there three, and why should I care which
I'm using?)
This is a rhetorical and recurrent question...
It's not rhetorical at all, I'd like an answer :D
I'm always paranoid that I'm generating a 'bad' PDF or that something
else might be changing if I don't stick to the same one.. but then which
one should I use? :)
pdflatex is the _fastest_ by far - a good reason for using that one.
You also need pdflatex if you want to use the microtype package for
improving line breaking and hyphenation.
dvipdfm is slower, and hasn't been maintained for some time.
ps2pdf is the slowest of all, but it is necessary if you use the
pstricks package for your figures.
Perhaps the configure script should attempt to bind them one at a time
to PDF until one has all the necessary executables installed to succeed
in exporting a test file. This would be cool for some of the other
formats too if multiple methods can be found.
The three ways aren't equivalent, only almost equivalent.
Helge Hafting
