[tex-live] Re: incremental pdf
Werner LEMBERG
wl at gnu.org
Tue Aug 3 00:29:16 CEST 2004
> > However, I never understood why pdftex was written, rather
> > than a dvi to pdf translator.
>
> I don't know about others but before I switched to pdftex and was
> generating DVI files and then converting them to PDF (via PS) the result
> was: a) too big, b) some typesetting was done incorrectly, c) some
> PDF features were not available.
dvipdfmx is a very find piece of software. Give it a try. Currently,
if you process a CJK file with pdftex and dvipdfmx, the file created
by pdftex is three times(!) bigger in average. It also has built-in
Unicode cmap support (for both one-byte and two-byte encodings) which
is still very tedious to get with pdftex.
Werner
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