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Subject: ports/18861: Please port "pdflatex" to FreeBSD
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>Number:         18861
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Please port "pdflatex" to FreeBSD
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          wish
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 28 12:10:04 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Mohit Aron
>Release:        FreeBSD-4.0-RELEASE
>Organization:
Rice University
>Environment:
FreeBSD luzern.cs.rice.edu 4.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Mar 16 19:14:31 CST 2000     aron@luzern.cs.rice.edu:/usr/src/sys/compile/LUZERN  i386

>Description:
Can the software package "pdflatex" be ported to FreeBSD (i.e. made 
available as a FreeBSD port). This package converts latex files directly
into PDF format. This gives much better typesetting and fonts than
when a PS file is converted to PDF using ps2pdf utility.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try converting any Postscript document obtained by using 'latex' followed
by 'dvips' and 'ps2pdf' on a .tex file. Compare the result with that
using pdflatex on the .tex file. 
>Fix:
Use pdflatex instead of the regular latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf sequence.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:


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