From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 10 09:11:10 2003 Return-Path: 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 C922C16A4B3 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:11:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.seekingfire.com (coyote.seekingfire.com [24.72.10.212]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0572C43FCB for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 09:11:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tillman@seekingfire.com) Received: from blues.seekingfire.prv (blues.seekingfire.prv [192.168.23.211]) by mail.seekingfire.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AC792A6 for ; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:11:09 -0600 (CST) Received: (from tillman@localhost) by blues.seekingfire.prv (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h9AGB9i31209 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:11:09 -0600 Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 10:11:09 -0600 From: Tillman Hodgson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20031010101109.F30205@seekingfire.com> References: <20031010123141.GA1925@sillyrabbi.dyndns.org> <5.2.0.9.1.20031010144022.01a7bd70@postamt1.charite.de> <20031010075910.A30205@seekingfire.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20031010075910.A30205@seekingfire.com>; from tillman@seekingfire.com on Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 07:59:10AM -0600 X-Urban-Legend: There is lots of hidden information in headers Subject: Re: writing pdfs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2003 16:11:10 -0000 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 -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet, you can't win. - Robert Heinlein