Uwe Stöhr wrote:
neubrief wrote:
I'm somewhat new to LyX and Tex and want to know what is the difference between using pdf, dvipdfm and pdflatex when exporting my lyx document to a pdf one?
pdf creates a (lyx)->tex->dvi->ps->pdf (due to the complicated construction via 2 other file formats, it has many restrictions (hyperlinks disappear etc.) )
dvipdfm creates (lyx)->tex->dvi->pdf (better than the first method, it is able to embed images and to create hyperlinks. The dvipdfm-programm is not under development since 2002)
pdflatex creates (lyx)->tex->pdf (best solution, you can embed images and other pdfs, create hyperlinks and the file size of the pdf is smaller than with dvipdfm. Pdflatex is developed by a large community and is part of all actual LaTeX-distributions (de-facto the standard).)
pdflatex is also a lot faster than the other alternatives, so use it unless you really need
some feature only found in the others.
Helge Hafting
