I used ensure I got the right output by having constructs at the top of the source files like this:
\newif\ifpdf \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined \pdffalse % we are not running PDFLaTeX \else \pdfoutput=1 % we are running PDFLaTeX \pdftrue \fi \ifpdf ... do some pdf things \fi \ifpdf \usepackage[pdftex]{color} \else \usepackage{color} \fi and so on. latex file didn't define "pdfoutput" so it miised the PDF stuff out and crated a DVI pdflatex file did define "pdfoutput" so it included PDF specific stuff and created a PDF teTex's pdflatex/latex always seems ot define pdfoutput even when I try -output-format=dvi Have I missed something ? Could I just have installed it incorrectly ? Reading the obvious posting at the list archive, I get the idea I might not have to do the jumping through \ifdef\pdfoutput anyway but so far, the penny (pfennig ?) hasn't dropped for me. -- Regards, ---------------------------------------------------------------------- * Kevin M. Buckley e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * * * * Systems Administrator * * Computer Centre * * Lancaster University Voice: +44 (0) 1524 5 93718 * * LANCASTER. LA1 4YW Fax : +44 (0) 1524 5 25113 * * England. * * * * My PC runs Linux/GNU, you still computing the Bill Gate$' way ? * ----------------------------------------------------------------------