Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:11:09 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: writing pdfs Message-ID: <20031010101109.F30205@seekingfire.com> In-Reply-To: <20031010075910.A30205@seekingfire.com>; from tillman@seekingfire.com on Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:59:10AM -0600 References: <20031010123141.GA1925@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <5.2.0.9.1.20031010144022.01a7bd70@postamt1.charite.de> <20031010075910.A30205@seekingfire.com>
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On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:59:10AM -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote:
> 1. \usepackage{times} (or palatino or bookman or whatever font
> package you like)
>
> 2. use something like this in your Makefile:
>
> ps:
> latex some_latex_file.tex
> latex some_latex_file.tex
> dvips -Ppdf -G0 some_latex_file.dvi
>
> pdf:
> latex some_latex_file.tex
> latex some_latex_file.tex
> dvips -Ppdf -G0 some_latex_file.dvi
> ps2pdf some_latex_file.ps
>
> (running latex twice is for TOC generation, if you don't use a TOC you
> don't need that part).
>
> Voila! Your PDF and PS output will be identical. Quick display outdates
> and non-bitmap printing.
Follow-up:
For some live examples, take a look at "Automated report generation with
LaTeX and MetaPost" at http://www.rospa.ca/documents/ ... or even the
Prosper based PDFs under "Presentations".
-T
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