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diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html index 85f7456945e..59fd0cdb317 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/doc/generic/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html @@ -2,13 +2,13 @@ <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’s original -‘distillation’ route (via PostScript output), conversion of a +<p/>There are three general routes to PDF output: Adobe’s original +‘distillation’ 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’s VTeX (which comes both as a +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 OS/2 and Linux systems). +<a href="FAQ-TeXsystems.html">‘free’ 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 @@ -32,15 +32,15 @@ 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’s <i>hyperref</i>, and Michael Mehlich’s +Heiko Oberdiek’s <i>hyperref</i>, and Michael Mehlich’s <i>hyper</i>. (In practice, almost everyone uses -<i>hyperref</i>; <i>hyper</i> hasn’t been updated since 2000.) +<i>hyperref</i>; <i>hyper</i> hasn’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&Y’s <i>DVIPSONE</i> can +Both <i>dvips</i> and Y&Y’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 @@ -50,22 +50,22 @@ 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>’s +<i>Distiller</i>’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’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>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’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 -rather clumsy — <i>GSview</i> doesn’t make the same +cycle of “Edit-> Process-> Preview” become +rather clumsy — <i>GSview</i> doesn’t make the same mistake. <dl> <dt><tt><i>Acrobat Reader</i></tt><dd>browse |