On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 08:37:25PM -0600, Fernando Pérez wrote:
> Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 20:37:25 -0600 (MDT)
> From: Fernando Pérez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: Martin Vermeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> cc: "Asger K. Alstrup Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Updated (Lyx/Latex) -> (ps/pdf/html) script
> In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > In my distro epstopdf is part of tetex. The philosophy apparently
> > being that it is needed when running pdflatex instead of LaTeX on a
> > document prepared with eps graphics.
>
> As far as I understand it, epstopdf comes together with pdflatex, it was
> written by the same people. So anyone who has the pdftex package should
> have epstopdf. And most recent versions of tetex (I don't know starting
> when) do include the pdftex family. Same with latex2html, I think.
I do not find latex2html in my tetex. texi2html yes, but that's
different.
> In summary, recent installations of tetex come with latex2html, pdflatex,
> epstopdf, latex and dvips. So besides lyx and perl, tetex should provide
> everything needed to run lyxport. I'm open to corrections if I'm mistaken
> in any of this.
Still epstopdf is a small file (282 lines) so why not put it on the lyx
contrib site. It isn't very clear what the licence is, but I suppose
the LaTeX licence. The actual work is done by ghostscript anyway --
which we all have :-(
> Best regards,
>
> Fernando.
>
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Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Helsinki University of Technology
Department of Surveying
P.O. Box 1200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland
:wq
