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-<head>
-<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label acrobat</title>
-</head><body>
-<h3>Making Acrobat PDF documents from (La)TeX</h3>
-<p/>There are three general routes to PDF output: Adobe&#8217;s original
-&#8216;distillation&#8217; route (via PostScript output), conversion of a
-DVI file, and the use of a direct PDF generator such as
-<a href="FAQ-whatpdftex.html">PDFTeX</a>) or
-MicroPress&#8217;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">&#8216;free&#8217; version)</a> for OS/2 and Linux systems).
-<p/>For simple documents (with no hyper-references), you can either
-<ul>
-<li> process the document in the normal way, produce PostScript
- output and distill it;
-<li> (on a Windows or Macintosh machine with the appropriate Adobe
- tools installed) pass the output through the
- PDFwriter in place of a printer driver (this route is a dead
- end: the PDFwriter cannot create hyperlinks);
-<li> process the document in the normal way and generate PDF
- direct from the DVI using
- <i>dvipdfm</i>/<i>dvipdfmx</i>; or
-<li> process the document direct to PDF with PDFTeX or
- VTeX. PDFTeX has
- the advantage of availability for a wide range of platforms, VTeX
- (available commercially for Windows, or free of charge, but
- unsupported, for Linux or OS/2) has wider graphics
- capability, dealing with encapsulated PostScript and some in-line PostScript.
-</ul>
-<p/>To translate all the LaTeX cross-referencing into Acrobat
-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
-<a href="FAQ-hyper.html">HyperTeX specification</a>:
-Heiko Oberdiek&#8217;s <i>hyperref</i>, and Michael Mehlich&#8217;s
-<i>hyper</i>. (In practice, almost everyone uses
-<i>hyperref</i>; <i>hyper</i> hasn&#8217;t been updated since 2000.)
-<i>Hyperref</i> can often determine how it should generate
-hypertext from its environment, but there is a wide set of
-configuration options you can give via <code>\</code><code>usepackage</code>. The package
-can operate using PDFTeX primitives, the hyperTeX
-<code>\</code><code>special</code>s, or DVI driver-specific <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands.
-Both <i>dvips</i> and Y&#38;Y&#8217;s <i>DVIPSONE</i> can
-translate the DVI with these <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands into
-PostScript acceptable to Distiller, and
-<i>dvipdfm</i> and <i>dvipdfmx</i> have <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands of
-its own.
-<p/>If you use Plain TeX, the <a href="FAQ-eplain.html">Eplain macros</a> can
-help you create PDF documents with hyper-references.
-It can operate using PDFTeX primitives, or <code>\</code><code>special</code> commands
-for the <i>dvipdfm</i>/<i>dvipdfmx</i> DVI drivers.
-<p/>While there is no free implementation of all of <i>Adobe</i>
-<i>Distiller</i>&#8217;s
-functionality, any but the very oldest versions of <i>Ghostscript</i>
-provide pretty reliable distillation (but beware of the problems with
-<a href="FAQ-dvips-pdf.html"><i>dvips</i> output for distillation</a>).
-<p/>For viewing (and printing) the resulting files, Adobe&#8217;s
-<i>Acrobat</i> <i>Reader</i> is available for a fair range of
-platforms; for those for which Adobe&#8217;s reader is unavailable, remotely
-current versions of <i>ghostscript</i> combined with
-<i>gv</i> or <i>GSview</i> can display and print PDF
-files, as can <i>xpdf</i>.
-<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&#8217;s displaying: this
-makes the traditional (and highly effective) (La)TeX development
-cycle of &#8220;Edit-&#62; Process-&#62; Preview&#8221; become
-rather clumsy &#8212; <i>GSview</i> doesn&#8217;t make the same
-mistake.
-<dl>
-<dt><tt><i>Acrobat Reader</i></tt><dd>browse
- <a href="ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader">ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/acrobatreader</a>
-<dt><tt><i>dvipdfm</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvipdfm.zip">dviware/dvipdfm</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvipdfm/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>dvipdfmx</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvipdfmx.zip">dviware/dvipdfmx</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/dviware/dvipdfmx/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/dvipdfmx.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>ghostscript</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ghostscript/GPL">support/ghostscript/GPL</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/ghostscript-GPL.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>GSview</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/ghostscript/ghostgum">support/ghostscript/ghostgum</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/gsview.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>gv</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/support/gv">support/gv</a>; <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org//help/Catalogue/entries/gv.html">catalogue entry</a>
-<dt><tt><i>hyper.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyper.zip">macros/latex/contrib/hyper</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyper/">browse the directory</a>)
-<dt><tt><i>hyperref.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/hyperref</a> (or <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/">browse the directory</a>); <a href="http://mirror.ctan.org/help/Catalogue/entries/hyperref.html">catalogue entry</a>
-</dl>
-<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=acrobat">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=acrobat</a>
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