[texhax] Achieving the optimum quality of rendering

[William Adams]

Using Adobe Acrobat to Distill from .ps to .pdf will afford more
options and control and be more in-line w/ what commercial printers
want / expect, but there's no reason not to just make good quality
.pdf files for inclusion into your pages, and then to use pdflatex and
go straight to .pdf.



On 3/3/14, Dr A K Hannaby <keith_hannaby at mathshelp.com> wrote:
> Tug
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> I am writing a book on mathematics using the TechnicCenter with MiKTeX 2.9
> AMSBOOK and running under Windows 7.
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> As I write, I build (compile) the current .tex file as dvi - because it
> renders reasonably and is quite quick.
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> I have named all my figures without specifying the file extension;  both
> eps
> and pdf versions of each figure exist in the appropriate folder.
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> In the final version, I would like the best possible quality of rendering
> and I believe that to be a pdf file.
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> My two questions are, first.
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> which of the options:
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> (i)                      Latex => DVI (not this one)
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> (ii)                    Latex => DVI => PDF
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> (iii)                  Latex => PDF
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> (iv)                  Latex => PS => PDF
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> should I use, and second.
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> is the final quality dependent on the software already present on my PC?
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> To put it another way.  would I benefit, for example, by having the latest
> version of Adobe Acrobat or whatever on my PC in the final instance?
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> Regards
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> Keith
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