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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’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> 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 -translate 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/>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> DVI driver. -<p/>While there is no free implementation of all of <i>Adobe</i> -<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 -<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>gv</i>, <i>GSview</i> (or even the unsupported -<i>ghostview</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 -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 -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>dvipdfmx</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfmx.zip">dviware/dvipdfmx</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfmx.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfmx/">browse</a>) -<dt><tt><i>ghostscript</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/ghostscript/">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>gv</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/gv/">support/gv/</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> |