Re: dvipdf vs buildt-in converter to pdf??

[Ralf Angeli]

* Peter Dyballa (2006-07-15) writes:

> Am 15.07.2006 um 08:36 schrieb pop:
>
>> I use auctex. If I use latex built-in 'pdflatex' I need to have my  
>> pictures
>> in a .pdf format. But if I just want to see the dvi output I need  
>> to have
>> them in .eps. So far I have had both a .pdf version and a .eps  
>> version of
>> the pictures and included them like:
>
> Have you thought of a PDF viewer as substitute for xdvi? There are  
> free ones that work better then commercial products. When you have  
> teTeX you can use texdoc as universal script to view teTeX  
> documentation or as tex-dvi-view-command.
>
> IMO the route with DVI output is out-dated. PDF is the way today.  

Unless you want an extraordinarily fast previewer which supports
forward and inverse search as well.

> You could try to set tex-dvi-print-command to a script that uses  
> dvipdfm to convert DVI to PDF -- and in the end it should print the  
> PDF file (or use tex-alt-dvi-print-command for this purpose).
>
> Or, set *tex-run-command(s) to scripts that do two things: invoking  
> some *TeX engine (plain tex, latex, xetex, xelatex, slitex, ...) +  
> upon success dvipdfm.

Those variables are totally unrelated to AUCTeX which the OP is using
as mentioned above.

-- 
Ralf