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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..361c70f4ba5 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-acrobat.html @@ -0,0 +1,77 @@ +<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-> Process-> 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> |