off-topic question: Latex and R in industries 2005-04-07 - By David Scott
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> On 7 Apr 2005, at 22:56, Jonathan Baron wrote:
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>> On 04/07/05 22:46, Donald Ingram wrote:
>> However LaTeX generated pdfs sent out as reports are much disliked.
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>> Really? I don't have this problem. It may have something to do
>> with how you make them. With TeTeX, I use either pdflatex or
>> dvips followed by dvipdfm. The latter is required when I have
>> figures in eps. (ps2pdf is BAD.)
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I have played around with these converters a bit and I think I can add
something important here.
As Jonathan says dvipdfm seems to work very well. The only problem I have
is that it is not on our unix boxes by default: it is in mikTeX.
ps2pdf in my experience is not the problem in dvi to pdf conversion. I
used to think that until I delved into it a bit more. The problem as I
understand it is that fonts can be bitmapped and hence disgusting and
slow. The trick is to make sure dvips uses Type I fonts. An incantation
such as
dvips -Pwww -o file.ps file.dvi
followed by
ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dAutoRotatePages=/None file.ps file.pdf
works for me just as well as dvipdfm
dvipdfm has an advantage over this two-step route to pdf because it knows
straight off that it is producing a pdf. dvips plus ps2pdf needs tweaking.
US readers will need letter instead of a4 above. The -dAutoRotatePages is
to avoid pages being rotated to make the longest side of the graph
coincide with the longest side of the page.
References for this stuff are the LaTeX Graphics Companion and the LaTeX
Web Companion.
Off-topic a bit I guess, but in my experience very useful to know,
including when you start playing around with seminar, prosper, beamer,
pdfscreen etc.
David Scott
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