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- This is dvipdfm, a DVI to PDF translator. I wrote this mainly as
-exercise to get at the features of PDF I wanted to experiment with. You're
-probably wondering why I don't use PDFTeX. I am a bit of a purist and I
-would rather use TeX unmodified as Donald Knuth left it.
-You can get it or the manual from
-
- http://odo.kettering.edu/dvipdfm
-
-or if you prefer FTP:
-
- ftp://ftp.kettering.edu/pub/outgoing/mwicks/dvipdfm
-
-
- Features:
- - TeX \special's that approximate the functionality
- of the PostScript pdfmarks used by Adobe's
- Acrobat Distiller. Links, outlines, articles, and named
- destinations are supported, for example.
-
- - Ability to include PDF, JPEG, PNG, MetaPost, and self-contained
- (e.g., eps) PostScript (with help from an external program) files as
- embedded images. For PDF files, only the first page is included.
- Resources will be embedded from the original file as necessary.
- File inclusion does not work for PDF files that store the page
- contents in several segments in an array.
-
- - Support for several \special standards for
- DVI file portability.
-
- - Support for thumbnails (with a little help from GhostScript).
-
- - Re-encoding support for PostScript fonts. dvipdfm
- uses the same .enc files as dvips. The mapfile is different.
-
- - Virtual font support.
-
- - Support for arbitrary linear graphics transformations.
- Any material on the page can be scaled and rotated.
-
- - An internal color stack accessible via \special's.
-
- - Beginning of page (BOP) and end of page (EOP)
- \special's for placing arbitrary PDF stream
- graphics on every page.
-
- - Partial font embedding and Flate compression
- for reduced file size.
-
- - Balanced page tree and dest tree to improve reader
- speed on very large documents.
-
- Limitations (at present):
-
- - Contents streams consisting of multiple parts cannot be embedded.
- - All instances of the same Type1 font must have the same encoding.
-
- Additional Information:
-
- There is a dvipdfm e-mail list. To join, send
-e-mail to majordomo@gaspra.kettering.edu containing
-the line:
-
- subscribe dvipdfm
-
- Mark A. Wicks
- Kettering University
- mwicks@kettering.edu