How do you convert .tex or .dvi to .ps
Doug Holland
Does anyone know how to convert a .tex / .dvi to a postscript file, as I
want to then pass it into Adobe Acrobat distiller to create a .pdf file.
Thanks in advance
Doug
dps...@uakron.edu
(a) TeX the file to create a dvi file, go to (2)
(2) To Create PS from a dvi:
(a) use a dvi-to-ps converter such as dvips, which may
already be present on your system
(3) To Create PDF from a tex file:
(a) use pdftex, which goes directly from tex to pdf
(b) TeX the file to create a dvi file, then go to (4)
(4) To Create PDF from a dvi file
(b) TeX the file to create a dvi file, then use the application
dvipdfm, this will get you pdf from dvi directly.
My article on "Using LaTeX to create quality PDF documents for the WWW"
may be of interest as well. See my AcroTex web site for a link:
http://www.math.uakron.edu/~dpstory/acrotex.html
Hope this helps.
dps
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Martin Herrman
> Hi
>
> Does anyone know how to convert a .tex / .dvi to a postscript file, as I
> want to then pass it into Adobe Acrobat distiller to create a .pdf file.
dvi -> ps
dvips -o source.dvi destination.ps
ps -> pdf
ps2pdf source.ps
HTH
Martin
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Doug
>
>
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Doug Holland wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Does anyone know how to convert a .tex / .dvi to a postscript file, as I
> want to then pass it into Adobe Acrobat distiller to create a .pdf file.
Use dvips to convert .dvi to .ps (this always works and is standard
way),
or use pdftex (pdflatex) to produce pdf directly from .tex file.
(pdftex may not work if you have ps graphics included in your document,
still you can use ghostscript version 6 to convert .ps to .pdf after
dvips,
so you do not need distiller at all.)
> Thanks in advance
>
> Doug
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Jeffrey Goldberg
> Does anyone know how to convert a .tex / .dvi to a postscript file, as I
> want to then pass it into Adobe Acrobat distiller to create a .pdf file.
To convert PostScript from DVI, the program dvips is the best bet.
But if your intent is to create PDF, then process the a plain TeX file
with pdftex and a LaTeX file with pdflatex which create PDF instead of
DVI.
An important note: Not all computer systems inextricably tie the content
type of the file to its name. A file ending with .tex may be a LaTeX file
or a plain TeX file (or really anything else). Until a few years ago,
most files on most computers on the Internet with names like .doc
containted plain or formated ascii text. It will be a lot clearer if you
refer to files by their type and not their extensions if you want to be
understood.
-j
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"Doug Holland" <douglas...@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> Hi
>
> Does anyone know how to convert a .tex / .dvi to a postscript file, as I
> want to then pass it into Adobe Acrobat distiller to create a .pdf file.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Doug
>
>
Giuseppe Bilotta
>
> > Does anyone know how to convert a .tex / .dvi to a postscript file, as I
> > want to then pass it into Adobe Acrobat distiller to create a .pdf file.
>
>
> But if your intent is to create PDF, then process the a plain TeX file
> with pdftex and a LaTeX file with pdflatex which create PDF instead of
> DVI.
>
All right, pdflatex is the right thing to use to obtain pdfs from dvis; but
it can't be used in some circumstances, e.g. when using pstricks or similar
(xypic with special otuput options that require ps interface); in this cases
the dvi->ps->pdf path is obligatory. It would be nice if pdflatex could
understan some ps-specials too ...
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