[OS X TeX] Re: dvipdf vs. dvipdfm vs. dvipdfmx

[Arthur Snoke]

I am not familiar with dvipdfm -- or dvipdfmx.  I have been using  
dvipdf as a shortcut for dvips => ps2pdf.  I would appreciate it if  
someone could point me to a comparison among these options.   
Specifically, what do I lose by using dvipdf?

Also, in this recent thread I saw mention about the Mac ps2pdf.  Is  
it superior to the ps2pdf which comes with ghostscript?

I am using Mac OS 10.4.3 and the i-installer latex package (as of a  
few months ago).

Thanks in advance.

Arthur Snoke
snoke at vt.edu

On Nov 27, 2005, at 5:51 AM, Morten Høgholm wrote:

> On Sun, 27 Nov 2005 11:34:56 +0100, Maarten Sneep  
> <maarten.sneep at xs4all.nl> wrote:
>
>> TeXniscope uses dvipdfmx, so an option to the graphicx package to  
>> indicate such may be helpful.
>>
>> \usepackage[dvipdf]{graphicx}
>
> I'm sure you mean the dvipdfm option. dvipdf is an ancient driver  
> for going through Postscript.
> -- 
> Morten
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