[texhax] TeX LaTeX ConTeX in industry

[William Adams]

On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:04 PM, Beverley Eyre wrote:

> I was asked by a colleague about companies that use TeX/LaTeX for
> documents, publications, whatever, either just in-house or for the
> public. I can't imagine how such information could be gotten, but I  
> seem
> to recall some such list was prepared at some time in the recent past.


Really, any company that needs to manipulate .pdfs or create them  
should consider using pdftex or xetex (or the up-coming luatex).

I regularly use it to create printouts of art programs or lists of  
graphic files or to otherwise batch process .pdfs (Adobe Acrobat's  
capabilities for this are a bit limited).

Similarly I've used it to develop typesetting backends for a telephone  
book line ad generation system as well as one for personalized  
children's books --- it's a lot less expensive than licensing InDesign  
Server and in many ways more capable.

It's used even more by previous employer. Nifty on-line demo here:

http://cuspub.atlis.com/

Collection of sample .pdfs which were typeset using TeX:

http://www.atlis.com/services/composition/samples/TeX%20Sample%20Pages/

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications