[pdftex] Speeding up PDFLaTeX by skipping file inclusion

[Joseph Hepburne Healy]

Is is possible to do:

latex -> bibtex -> pdflatex

I think that should generate the necessary information for bibtex to run
and pdflatex should work fine as well.

Joe Healy

On Wed, 14 May 2003, Kevin wrote:

> "K.R.Subramanian" wrote (by email)
> 
>   I believe you have to do pdflatex twice  (just like you do latex twice
>   above) to get all the references and citations straightened out. If you
>   can use jpg, use that, as the files are quite compact.
> 
> Yes, thank you for the correction. This further exagerates the speed
> difference:
> 
> latex -> bibtex -> latex -> latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf
> pdflatex -> bibtex -> pdflatex -> pdflatex
> 
> Also, at the bottom of my original post, I meant to say that I am using
> the [pdftex] and *[dvips]* arguments to graphicx.sty as appropriate.
> 
> I feel like I'm having pdflatex repeat work unnecessarily
> Does anyone know of a method around this?
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Kevin
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