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Creating PDF Files
This page will try to provide an detailed information on converting PostScript documents into Portable Document Format (PDF) which can be viewed using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Creating PDFs in Mac OS TBD Creating PDFs in Windows TBD Creating PDFs on Unix For example, let's say you have a LaTeX document named "myfile.tex", the recommended sequence of commands to create PDF files for either web viewing/download use or for submission to NSF FastLane is: 1) latex myfile.tex 2) xdvi myfile.dvi & 3) dvips -P pdf -o myfile.ps myfile.dvi 4) ghostview myfile.ps & OR 4) gv myfile.ps & 5) distill -compatlevel 3.0 -embedallfonts on -subsetfonts on -maxsubsetpct 100 myfile.ps OR 5) ps2pdf -dMaxSubsetPct=100 -dCompatibilityLevel=1.2 -dSubsetFonts=true -dEmbedAllFonts=true myfile.ps 6) acroread myfile.pdf & You can skip steps #2, and #4, if viewing the intermediate .dvi and .ps files is not needed. |
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