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Tex2pdf - Generates a PDF document from a LaTeX or LyX document

If the input is a LyX document the script produces a LaTeX file with the LyX export function, and then processes the exported LaTeX document. It searches LaTeX documents for referenced files (other LaTeX docs, images), prepares for pdflatex, and converts included EPS/PS/PSTEX images to PDF with 'epstopdf.' Finally the script runs pdflatex, bibtex, makeindex, thumbpdf, authorindex or ppower (according to dependencies encountered and parameter selection).

Obtaining

Web page http://tex2pdf.berlios.de/ Source tarball http://download.berlios.de/tex2pdf/tex2pdf-3.1b.tar.gz

Version 3.0.21 (stable) released on 2002-07-13 Version 3.1 (beta) released on 2002-07-30 Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later. This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Announce List	<tex2pdf-announce@lists.berlios.de> http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/tex2pdf-announce
Developer List	<tex2pdf-devel@lists.berlios.de> http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/tex2pdf-devel

Project contacts

Maintainers	Steffen Evers
Developers	Steffen Evers Oscar Lopez
Contributors	Jean-Pierre Chretien Fernando Perez Herbert Voss

Related information

Source repository	:pserver:anonymous@cvs.tex2pdf.berlios.de:/cvsroot/tex2pdf http://cvs.berlios.de/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tex2pdf/
Interfaces	command line
Source languages	Perl, shell script
Use requirements	Perl, pdftex, epstopdf, hyperref
Weak prerequisites	bibtex (for making a bibliography), glosstex (making a glossary with bibtex), makeindex (for creating an index from your LaTeX document), authorindex (for creating an author index based on document citations), thumbpdf (for creating thumbnails of your document pages), ppower4 (a java class to postprocess PDF files adding pause effects in the text and the image displaying), LyX (LaTeX word processor, for when you want to process LyX documents)

Entry information

License verified by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2002-07-30
Entry compiled by	Janet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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