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generating ps/pdf documents

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ps and pdf document are generated by so-called drivers. the name of the driver will have to be specified as an option in the following notes: figures, colours, pdf hyper references

• driver: dvips
  • first variant:

    latex <file>.tex
    dvips -Ppdf -G0 -o <file>.ps <file>.dvi
    ps2pdf -dPDFsettings=/prepress -o <file>.pdf <file>.ps
    

  • second variant:

    latex <file>.tex
    dvipdf <file>.tex
    

• driver: pdftex

  pdflatex <file>.tex
  

• driver: dvipdfm
  • plain:

    latex <file>.tex
    dvipdfm <file>.dvi
    

  • with thumbnails:

    latex <file>.tex
    dvipdfm -e -z0 <file>.dvi
    gs -r10 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=png256 -sOutputFile=<file>.%d <file>.pdf
    dvipdfm <file>
    

• how to tell apart pdftex and other drivers:

  \ifx\pdftexversion\undefined
      \usepackage[dvips]{graphics} %\usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphics}
  \else
      \usepackage[pdftex]{graphics}
  \fi