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author | Norbert Preining <norbert@preining.info> | 2019-09-02 13:46:59 +0900 |
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diff --git a/macros/latex/contrib/withesis/acro.tex b/macros/latex/contrib/withesis/acro.tex new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..384c3d95c4 --- /dev/null +++ b/macros/latex/contrib/withesis/acro.tex @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +% acrobat.tex +% +% This file explains how to generate Adobe Acrobat files +% +% Eric Benedict, July 2000 +% +% It is provided without warranty on an AS IS basis. + +\newcommand{\pdf}{\mbox{\tt *.pdf}} + +\chapter{Adobe Acrobat (\pdf ) Files} +The Adobe Acrobat file format has pretty much become the {\em de facto} +standard for document sharing. As such, some faculty members and/or +departments may be requiring a final copy of the thesis in Acrobat format +(\pdf ). + +There are several different methods of obtaining a \pdf\ file from a \LaTeX{} +thesis; however, they are all very site specific. A couple of different +methods which have been found to work are mentioned as suggested ideas to try +as a starting point. Depending on what is installed at your site/location some +of these may be applicable. + +\section{Converting from {\tt *.ps} to \pdf} +One option to obtain the \pdf\ file would be to generate the thesis in a normal +manner and then use the Acrobat\ {\tt Distiller}\ to convert the postscript file into a +\pdf\ file. + +If the\ {\tt Distiller}\ program is available and convenient to use, then this is quite easy to do. + +Depending on the choice of document fonts, the results may not be satisfactory since +some of the fonts may end up as bit-mapped fonts and will display poorly at any resolution +other than what they were sampled on. Also, since the\ {\tt Distiller}\ program is an expensive +program to obtain, it is not always available. + +An alternative to the Adobe\ {\tt Distiller}\ program is the Alladin\ {\tt Ghostscript}\ program. This is +available for free from + +{\tt \verb| http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/index.html|} + +This program is available for most common operating systems as a compiled binary, but the source code +is available for other systems. One drawback is that this conversion must be performed as a +command line invocation and isn't very user friendly. This may be addressed in a future version of\ +{\tt Ghostview}, the program which provides a nice user interface to\ {\tt Ghostscript}. + +\section{Converting from {\tt *.dvi} to \pdf} +There are two programs available which will convert from {\tt *.dvi} to \pdf,\ {\tt dvipdf}\ and\ +{\tt dvipdfm}. The\ {\tt dvipdfm}\ program will be discussed here. In version 0.12, it can generate +bookmarks, thumbnails (with assistance from\ {\tt Ghostscript}), scaling and rotation, JPEG and +PNG bitmaps and font encoding and re-encoding (to support fonts which aren't fully supported by +the Acrobat suite). When\ {\tt Ghostscript}\ is properly installed,\ {\tt dvipdfm}\ will automatically +convert any encapsulated PostScript figures into the required \pdf{} format. This program behaved in a +similar manner to the {\tt dvips} program and was used to produce the \pdf{} format of this document. + + + +\section{Generating \pdf{} Initially} +There are now some programs which are similar to \TeX{} but instead of producing a\ {\tt .dvi}\ output, +they produce \pdf as a native output. One such program, {\sc pdf}\TeX{} / {\sc pdf}\LaTeX{}, +is available from + +{\tt \verb| http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex|} + +Note that as of this date, July 2000, {\sc pdf}\TeX{} / {\sc pdf}\LaTeX{} while currently quite usable, it +is still in a beta version. Look at the web site for more current information. + +The present version was able to produce a \pdf{} file of this document without any required +changes, except for the Postscript figure inclusion (Figure~\ref{vwcontr}). To properly include +this figure, requires the conversion of the postscript figure into a \pdf{} figure. The procedure +is described in the manual for {\sc pdf}\TeX{} / {\sc pdf}\LaTeX{}. Note that the figure conversion will +require either\ {\tt Distiller}\ or\ {\tt Ghostscript}. |