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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-12-14 00:56:47 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2006-12-14 00:56:47 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html index 361c70f4ba5..3f783f9ac40 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ <head> <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label acrobat</title> </head><body> -<h3>Making Acrobat documents from LaTeX</h3> -<p>There are three general routes to Acrobat output: Adobe's original -'distillation' route (via PostScript output), conversion of a +<h3>Making Acrobat PDF documents from (La)TeX</h3> +<p>There are three general routes to Acrobat output: Adobe’s original +‘distillation’ route (via PostScript output), conversion of a DVI file, and the use of a direct PDF generator such as -PDFTeX (see <a href="FAQ-pdftex.html">the PDFTeX project</a>) or -MicroPress's VTeX (see -<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">commercial TeX implementations</a> -and <a href="FAQ-TeXsystems.html">'free' TeX implementations)</a>). +PDFTeX (see <a href="FAQ-whatpdftex.html">PDFTeX</a>) or +MicroPress’s VTeX (which comes both as a +<a href="FAQ-commercial.html">commercial version</a> for Windows PCs, and as a +<a href="FAQ-TeXsystems.html">‘free’ version)</a> for Linux systems). <p>For simple documents (with no hyper-references), you can either <ul> <li> process the document in the normal way, produce PostScript @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ links, you need a LaTeX package to suitably redefine the internal commands. There are two of these for LaTeX, both capable of conforming to the HyperTeX specification (see <a href="FAQ-hyper.html">Making hypertext documents from TeX</a>): -Sebastian Rahtz's <i>hyperref</i>, and Michael Mehlich's -<i>hyper</i>. <i>Hyperref</i> +Heiko Oberdiek’s <i>hyperref</i>, and Michael Mehlich’s +<i>hyper</i>. uses a configuration file to determine how it will generate hypertext; it can operate using PDFTeX primitives, the hyperTeX <code>\</code><code>special</code>s, or DVI driver-specific <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands. @@ -41,27 +41,34 @@ it can operate using PDFTeX primitives, the hyperTeX translates the DVI with these <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands into PostScript acceptable to Distiller, and <i>dvipdfm</i> has <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands of its own. +<p>(In practice, almost everyone uses <i>hyperref</i>; <i>hyper</i> +hasn’t been updated since 2000.) +<p>If you use Plain TeX, Eplain macro package can help you create +Acrobat documents with hyper-references (see +“<a href="FAQ-eplain.html">what is Eplain</a>”). +It can operate using PDFTeX primitives, or <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands +for the <i>dvipdfm</i> DVI driver. <p>There is no free implementation of all of <i>Adobe</i> -<i>Distiller</i>'s -functionality, but recent versions of <i>ghostscript</i> +<i>Distiller</i>’s +functionality, any but the very oldest versions of <i>ghostscript</i> provide pretty reliable distillation (but beware of the problems discussed in <a href="FAQ-dvips-pdf.html"><i>dvips</i> output for distillation</a>). In fact, <i>Distiller</i> itself is now remarkably cheap (for academics at least). -<p>For viewing (and printing) the resulting files, Adobe's +<p>For viewing (and printing) the resulting files, Adobe’s <i>Acrobat</i> <i>Reader</i> is available for a fair range of -platforms; for those for which Adobe's reader is unavailable, remotely +platforms; for those for which Adobe’s reader is unavailable, remotely current versions of <i>ghostscript</i> combined with <i>ghostview</i> or <i>GSview</i> can display and print PDF files. <p>In many circumstances, <i>ghostscript</i> combined with a viewer application is actually preferable to Acrobat Reader. For example, on -Windows Acrobat Reader locks the <code>.pdf</code> file it's displaying: this +Windows Acrobat Reader locks the <code>.pdf</code> file it’s displaying: this makes the traditional (and highly effective) (La)TeX development -cycle of "Edit-> Process-> Preview" become -incredibly clumsy - <i>GSview</i> doesn't make the same +cycle of “Edit-> Process-> Preview” become +incredibly clumsy — <i>GSview</i> doesn’t make the same mistake. <dl> <dt><tt><i>Acrobat Reader</i></tt><dd>browse |