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What's New:

How to make pretty-looking pdf files from latex without using distiller

If you use Unix or Linux and do not have access to the distiller server, here is the procedure to produce good quality PDF files from latex.

Requirements:

  1. teTeX version 1.0.6 or higher;
  2. ghostscript version 6.0 or higher;
  3. Adobe Acroreader(TM) version 4.0 or higher;
Those software packages are free and can be found on Internet. Once those packages are installed, do the following just as easy as:
  1. latex your source file to produce DVI file;
  2. convert DVI file to PS file: dvips -Ppdf -t letter -o filename.ps filename This will insert the Type 1 font, instead of those ugly bitmap fonts, into the resulting PS file. You will see the font names that are embedded when dvips runs, and also there will be a font section in the resulting PS file;
  3. convert PS file to PDF: ps2pdf filename.ps filename.pdf. ps2pdf comes with ghostscipt, and is actually a shell script. It invokes ghostscript for the conversion, the device driver is pdfwrite. "gs -help" will give more info on the supported devices.
  4. then, enjoy the PDF file using Acroreader.

What's Cool:

  1. Publications
  2. AIAA Homepage
  3. ASME Homepage
  4. NASA Homepage
  5. Prof. Feng Liu
  6. Dr. Lyle D. Dailey
  7. Prof. William C. Reynolds

Last Modified: October 2000