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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
+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>).
+<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 with <i>dvipdfm</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 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 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>
+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.
+
+<i>Dvips</i>
+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>There is no free implementation of all of <i>Adobe</i>
+<i>Distiller</i>'s
+functionality, but recent 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
+<i>Acrobat</i> <i>Reader</i> is available for a fair range of
+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
+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
+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="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm.zip">dviware/dvipdfm</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>ghostscript</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/nonfree/support/ghostscript/">nonfree/support/ghostscript/</a>
+<dt><tt><i>ghostview</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/gnu/ghostview/">support/ghostscript/gnu/ghostview/</a>
+<dt><tt><i>GSview</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/nonfree/support/ghostscript/ghostgum/">nonfree/support/ghostscript/ghostgum/</a>
+<dt><tt><i>hyper.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyper.zip">macros/latex/contrib/hyper</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyper.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyper/">browse</a>)
+<dt><tt><i>hyperref.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref.zip">macros/latex/contrib/hyperref</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hyperref/">browse</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>
+</body>