your mail -- the pdflatex query

[Christina Thiele]

The only pdf-related info I can find in c:\yandy\..... is a file in
the \docs-misc directory called hypr2pdf.txt. And there is also a
patch or some such elsewhere for people creating PDF files. In case he
wants to pursue another route for getting to PDF files.

Ch.


Robin Fairbairns writes:
>
> dear prof. moses
>
> > I was wondering if it is possible to set up an implementation of
> > pdflatex.  Most of my colleagues now use pdflatex, but I am using
> > YandY 2.2 on a Win2k machine (#4105) , along with adobe acrobat.  I
> > currently use dvips(one), and distiller to convert to pdf, but they
> > somehow convert directly.  They also handle figures differently.
> >
> > I could not find any pdflatex documentation on your website,
> > although perhaps I missed it.
>
> there is no mention on the web site, since y&y have no current plans
> to offer a version of pdftex.
>
> there are well-established techniques for sharing graphics between a
> regular tex system (such as y&y) and a pdflatex system.  without
> knowing the sorts of graphics you're using with your colleagues, it's
> not easy to say which techniques you might use.  unfortunately, the
> techniques exist largely as a collective folklore ... i have an
> ambition to codify them, but it's at the end of a long queue.
>
> Robin Fairbairns
>
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