From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 5 16:59:28 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AEDA437B401 for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:59:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com (svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com [203.39.118.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10DD043FAF for ; Wed, 5 Mar 2003 16:59:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com) Received: from wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Not Verified[203.39.118.3]) by svmarshal.bytecraft.au.com with MailMarshal (v5,0,3,78) id ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 12:00:24 +1100 Received: from mjtdev1.dand06.au.bytecraft.au.com (unknown [10.0.17.42]) by wombat.bytecraft.au.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379793E37; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:59:23 +1100 (EST) From: Murray Taylor Organization: Bytecraft Systems To: Simon Barner Subject: Re: dvipdfm DVI - PDF converter SOLVED Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:59:22 +1100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <200303061044.08960.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> <20030306001511.GA717@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <200303061126.23441.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <200303061126.23441.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200303061159.22412.murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Answering own question... Digging further into the build logs found ps2pdf from the Ghostscript build which does it perfectly ... YAY. mjt On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:26, Murray Taylor wrote: > Hmmm ... where did that pdflatex come from ... check latex build script > capture ... > hhmmmm ..Ahah.... lookit all those other things that come with LaTeX ... > > Seriously though ... didnt work. pdflatex does the same thing as dvipdfm > ... creates a nice pdf but no pictures .... > > Thanks Simon. > Any other ideas ?? > > On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:15, Simon Barner wrote: > > > I am using this port to make PDFs for the Windoze people from my > > > LaTeX files... but it is not inserting the epsfig pictures. > > > > > > A is there a way to get it to do this -- the man page does not seem to > > > indicate this ability ... > > > > > > B Is there a different tool to do 'production-grade' PDFs from DVI > > > files with all the images ? > > > > > > C Or is there a PS to PDF tool I havent found that can take the output > > > of dvips and make the PDF ? > > > > > > ports tree CVSuped 2 mar 2003 > > > > Did you have a look at pdflatex (which generates PDFs directly from your > > LaTeX sources)? > > > > Simon > > > > ************************************************************************ > > This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. > > ************************************************************************ -- Murray Taylor Special Projects Engineer --------------------------------- Bytecraft Systems & Entertainment Phone: 61 3 8710 2555 Fax: 61 3 8710 2599 Direct: 61 3 9238 4275 Mobile: 61 0417 319 256 Email: murraytaylor@bytecraftsystems.com or visit us on the web http://www.bytecraftsystems.com http://www.bytecraftentertainment.com ************************************************************************ This Email has been scanned for Viruses by MailMarshal. ************************************************************************ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message