Frank Mittelbach writes: > > - How much of an advantage is pdftex compared to creating pdf via DVI? > > I have only done the latter without any problems, but of course it > > involves more file format conversions. > > not only that, but "rich" as produced via pdftex with hyperef might be more > difficult to provide (I might get corrected here), eg can you easily produce > references etc via the dvi -> ps -> pdf route right now? that might become a > non issue but I guess there is an advantage when you can control what is > produced for the target format directly. the classic example is link breaking. if you have a long bit of text to make into a link, pdftex can break it into multiple links, amd linebreak nicely. dvi-based methods just crawl away in despair and make a long unbroken link. People do claim they could break links at the dvi level, but I don't think anyone has actually done it sebastian