Le Dimanche 5 Juin 2005 04:17, Brian J. Lopes a �crit�: > I tried to install amarok, which apparently wanted to upgrade my tetex > installation. > > So now I have followed all the tips given by fink to update my > tetex-base and tetex-texmf installations. It said to update tetex-texmf > then install tetex-base. Well, after running fink selfupdate, trying to > upgrade the packages, I seem to have recovered my tetex installation > (thank God). Yet, when running latex (not pdflatex) on the file it no > longer compiles to make a dvi file, but instead a pdf file. Is this the > default behavior now? Is it possible not to have latex run pdflatex > somehow?
If you've upgraded from tetex 2.0 to tetex 3.0, the default compiler was indeed changed to pdflatex. If I remember correctly, the old compiler was renamed to "pslatex". Maybe you should consider switching to pdf by default. I made that switch three years ago and never looked back. The PDF format makes much smaller files (builtin compression), can be read by everyone (the ps format is almost unknown nowadays), you can insert images in PNG, PDF or Jpeg format and you can use special features like text that appears word-by-word in a slide... There are only a couple of problems : one is that pstricks can't be used, but there is wrapper called pdftricks which overcomes the problem ; another is that you can't insert EPS images, but tetex has a converter called epstopdf which worked perfectly well on the thousands of EPS files I had when I switched to pdflatex. Regards, -- Thibaut Cousin http://www.thibaut-cousin.net
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