>>Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 09:52:29 +0200 (EET) >>From: Tuukka Toivonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>X-X-Sender: tuukkat@stekt30 >>To: Hanxue Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>cc: Lyx Mailing List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Subject: Re: Difference between PDF (GNU Ghostscript) and PDF (latex) >> >>On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Hanxue Lee wrote: >> >>>1. Through GNU Ghostscript (first option in menu) >>>2. Through PDF latex (second option in menu) >>>Which one produces a higher quality output? >> >>In my opinion, pdflatex creates higher quality output, >>but it is more difficult to use. >> >>- if you use pdflatex, your images must be in PDF format. >> But LyX can't then show them. >>- With pdflatex, you can use hyperlinks with package hyperref. >> I don't know if it works with usual LaTeX which goes >> to PostScript (I would guess not). >>- With pdflatex you can set the document title, keywords etc. >> that'll show with Acroread (not with xpdf :( ) >> >>Also, some latex document that I have written don't work with >>pdflatex, but only with latex. I don't know why, they should. >>
Check your pdflatex version, I had to upgrade to 14h to improve behaviour: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) tex2pdf current version is OK from LyX, may fail on plain latex or ERT'd LyX. Some detected causes of failure: - complicated constructs in title/author fields (newlines, changes in fonts,...), partially solved in the last cvs version; - multi-line \includegraphics commands, - command lines beginning with spaces (this one is perhaps gone), - ... (other small problems welcome) Otherwise, it does nothing that can't be done with undersanding of pdflatex and hyperref, but it does it for you pretty efficiently in the current release. I don'y use any other way now to produce pdf. -- Jean-Pierre
