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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2006-12-14 00:56:47 +0000
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<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&rsquo;s original
+&lsquo;distillation&rsquo; 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&rsquo;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">&lsquo;free&rsquo; 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&rsquo;s <i>hyperref</i>, and Michael Mehlich&rsquo;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&rsquo;t been updated since 2000.)
+<p>If you use Plain TeX, Eplain macro package can help you create
+Acrobat documents with hyper-references (see
+&ldquo;<a href="FAQ-eplain.html">what is Eplain</a>&rdquo;).
+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>&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s displaying: this
makes the traditional (and highly effective) (La)TeX development
-cycle of "Edit-&gt; Process-&gt; Preview" become
-incredibly clumsy - <i>GSview</i> doesn't make the same
+cycle of &ldquo;Edit-&gt; Process-&gt; Preview&rdquo; become
+incredibly clumsy &mdash; <i>GSview</i> doesn&rsquo;t make the same
mistake.
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>Acrobat Reader</i></tt><dd>browse