posted
8/26/2005

from LaTeX to PDF

  • Here's a post detailing the process from LaTeX to PDF.
  • There's another post called Creating High Resolution PDF files for book production with Open Source tools that appears to be overkill. Kept here for reference.
  • Do embed subsets of fonts used. But do not embed the entire fonts. To see the effect of font embedding, disable "Use Local Fonts" in menu "Document" of Acrobat Reader.
  • Use dvipdfm to generate both DVI and PDF; use pdflatex to generate PDF directly. dvipdfm takes EPS figures only. pdflatex does not accept EPS figures directly but takes rastered formats such as JPEG and PNG; one has to convert EPS to PDF using eps2pdf. With dvipdfm, use option -e to embed the fonts.

Later on I saw some comments again dvipdfm and dvipdf. Now I use the a script I wrote for myself.