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

[David Kastrup]

Leon <sdl.web@gmail.com> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> 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.
>>
>> Outdated or not, DVI viewers beat the pants off PDF in terms of
>> viewing speed and user interface (they offer reasonably well working
>> forward and backward search using Source Specials, for example).
>
> Which DVI viewer are you using?
>
> My xdvi that comes with texlive2005 does not run
> as fast as xpdf.

Come again?  I can lean on page-down, and let autorepeat do the rest.
And in fact, I could do this on a 486 already.  In contrast, xpdf does
not keep up with autorepeat, still.  And that's on a 1GHz Pentium III.

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