[tex-live] tex live 2009 pretests

[Robin Fairbairns]

Daniel Becker <daniel.becker at uni-rostock.de> wrote:

> could someone explain how this thing with epstopdf is implemented?
> What's the difference to the inclusion of
> 
> \usepackage{ifpdf}
> \ifpdf
> \usepackage{epstopdf}
> \else
> \fi
> 
> in the preamble of a LaTeX-Document? I'm asking because I might need
> to adjust http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/epspdfconversion (a modified package
> epstopdf that uses epspdf as the conversion script, not epstopdf).

strangely enough, i was thinking about this issue in the faq context,
this morning.

if someone on this list has a list of pros and cons, i would be
delighted to work it up into an answer that i could publish in the faq.

robin