From: mihailov AT math DOT upenn DOT edu (Aleksandrs Mihailovs) Subject: re: Anybody ever gotten dvips (TeX) to work ? 28 Dec 1997 12:07:25 -0800 Message-ID: References: <199712280542 DOT VAA28785 AT graft DOT XCF DOT Berkeley DOT EDU> Reply-To: Aleksandrs Mihailovs Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary="BeyondBoundary_1_Sun_Dec_28_14:39:31_1997__29" To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com, Jason Alan Nordwick --BeyondBoundary_1_Sun_Dec_28_14:39:31_1997__29 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit > From: Jason Alan Nordwick , on 12/28/97 2:21 PM: > Also, what do pdftex and pdflatex do ? I thought that they might > generate pdf files, but they still give me a dvi file and dvips > chokes on. To produce pdf output from a latex file, you have to add in the beginning of the file two lines: \pdfcompresslevel=9 \pdfoutput=1 After that, if you type in the Run field of the Start menu pdflatex yourfile where yourfile is the name of your latex file, you get a pdf output. For more details, see David Meeker's http://members.aol.com/dcm3c/running.pdf Also, see the Miktex project page http://www.inx.de/~cschenk/miktex/ By the way, at the end of that page you can find the address of the MikTex mailing list, probably they can help to solve your dvips problem. My dvips (from the MiKTeX 1.09 installation) works excellent. 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