Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (180 mails)

[Malcolm Herbert <mherbert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hmmm, 

all you Latex --> pdf'ers instead of pdflatex, use latex --> dvips --> ps2pdf 
means that you dont have to convert those eps diagrams. Better output. 
Acroread in later version has also stopped loading some pdf's, so you try 
xpdf instead. Sometimes its the other way round

Malcolm



On Thursday 19 July 2001 11:36, Damian Counsell wrote:
> Sent the gist of this to Gary, but forgot to circulate it to the list:
>
> I'm worried about changes in Acrobat 5.0 too because I have happily
> settled into making all my formatted documents with LaTeX and then
> distributing them as PDFs to everyone else (using 'pdflatex').
>
> Adobe will definitely not want to annoy long-term customers by losing
> backward compatibility with millions of archived documents, so things
> *should* be OK for well-formed code generated by Open programs.
>
> That isn't to say that Acrobat 5.0 isn't infested.  Get your crucifixes
> and garlic out, people; the full horror and how to cope with the pain
> can be found here:
>
>    http://www.micropress-inc.com/acr5bugs.htm
>
>
>
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