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aeolist

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 10

[LaTeX] dvips - tex.pro problem

Hello everyone,

i have been using arch for a year and a half and i must say: good job!

i want to experiment with latex. I was told that the best possible work flow to produce a pdf is
[tex source] --> latex --> [dvi] --> dvips --> [postscript] --> ps2pdf --> [pdf]

however doing a dvips -Ppdf on the dvi source gives an error
dvips: ! Couldn't find header file tex.pro

pdflatex works (but that's another story altogether innit?)

searching the internet reveals that i miss some fonts

and the question arises: which packages am i missing?

Thanks

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,329

Re: [LaTeX] dvips - tex.pro problem

Well, I personally don't know why your work flow should be better than using pdflatex. The only reason that comes to mind is that it's hard to insert an eps picture directly into pdflatex. Otherwise - I don't know.
As for your error - your workflow works fine on my computer, and I have just a standard tetex installation. I encountered a similar problem (missing ps fonts) recently, and it turned out that all that was needed was to run mktexlsr as root - that script renews the "ls-R΅ files which the tex system uses as indexes for files/directories. If some file is not in a ls-R, then tex doesn't see it at all. By the way, one way to test if tex "sees" a particular file is to run kpsewhich <filename> - it should return a full path to that file.

aeolist

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Registered: 2007-06-03

Posts: 10

Re: [LaTeX] dvips - tex.pro problem

yay, it worked

thanks a bunch mate