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hi there, and welcome in the LaTeX world!<br>
<br>
short answer: always use pdflatex (LaTeX => PDF), so that you can
benefit of all the pdf functionalities (such as: hyperlinks, bookmarks
and so on).<br>
<br>
Since LaTeX was born before the pdf (de facto) standard, at the
beginning the outputs were DVI (stands for DeVice Indipendent) or
PostScript (standard printer language).<br>
<br>
So, in case you don't have specific requirements, I suggest you to use
always pdflatex, since (in my opinion) there is no significant
difference in quality for documents printed from pdf or ps.<br>
<br>
happy latex-ing!<br>
<br>
Alessandro<br>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="headerSpan">Il 16/10/2009
16:24, Michael Zylla ha scritto:</span>
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<pre wrap="">Hi,
i'm new to ProTeXt and although i'm working with it for only some days i'm really happy with it. But now i have a suggestion and a questions. At first the suggestion:
After installing MiKTeX, TeXnicCenter, Ghostscript and GSView in this order (like it's recommended in the installation guide), i only found the following output formats in TeXnicCenter:
LaTeX=>DVI (opened with Yap)
LaTeX=>PDF (opened with Acrobat)
LaTeX=>PS (opened with Distiller and after that with Acrobat)
I wondered why i had installed Ghostscript and GSView because it wasn't used. So i decided to uninstall TeXnicCenter and reinstall it. After that i had the following output formats:
LaTeX=>DVI (opened with Yap)
LaTeX=>PDF (opened with Acrobat)
LaTeX=>PS (opened with GSView)
LaTeX=>PS=>PDF (opened with Acrobat)
So i installed everything in the order MikTeX, Ghostscript, GSView and at last TeXnicCenter. Wouldn't this be more reasonable or am i making a mistake?
These different output formats now lead me to my question:
If i'm right, i can create a PDf document in the following ways:
LaTeX=>PDf
LaTeX=>PS=>PDF
LaTeX=>PS and use the Distiller after that
How do these three options vary in their kind of creation? And which one leads to the best result for a printed document? Or are there maybe yet another/better ways for a creation?
Best regards,
Michael
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