Re: [Help-glpk] Re: producing PDF documentation

[Nigel Galloway]

Using Fedora 9 the TeX can be converted into a searchable pdf using texi2pdf 
once.

I tried xdvi which used to be the way to read dvi files only to find some 
pseudo-modernist has stolen it. It has been replaced by evince, which displays 
the dvi file and can save it as a pdf.


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stephan Hennig" <address@hidden>
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: "Robbie Morrison" <address@hidden>
> Subject: [Help-glpk] Re: producing PDF documentation
> Date: Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:05:08 +0100
> 
> 
> [posted through gmane.org, CC Robbie Morrison, Andrew Makhorin]
> 
> Robbie Morrison schrieb:
> 
> > The 'pdflatex' method gives the best quality output.
> > The resultant PDF is also seachable using Adobe
> > 'acroread' with the following qualification: the
> > various TeX ligatures, such as "fi", are not understood
> > by 'acroread' -- which means that "specified" will fail
> > but that "speci" works fine.
> 
> The attached patch makes ligatures searchable in pdflatex output.
> Tested with
> 
>    Windows XP
>    Adobe Reader 9.0.0
>    pdflatex 3.1415926-1.40.9 (MiKTeX 2.7)
> 
> and the following LaTeX packages:
> 
>   *File List*
>     ifpdf.sty    2007/12/12 v1.6 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
>      cmap.sty    2008/03/06 v1.0h CMap support: searchable PDF
>    report.cls    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
>    size11.clo    2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
>    omscmr.fd    1999/05/25 v2.5h Standard LaTeX font definitions
>   ***********
> 
> 
> > Version information:
> >
> >   pdflatex : pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> >
> > This email follows up an similar posting on 22-May-2008.
> 
> Where you gave the additional information that you're using a teTeX
> distribution shipped with Ubuntu.  The preferred TeX distribution for
> unix-flavoured operating systems is TeX Live, nowadays.  A fresh
> edition---TeX Live 2008---has recently been released.  teTeX is horribly
> outdated and no longer maintained.  It might contain an older cmap.sty
> package, that can break DVI compilation.
> 
> Best regards,
> Stephan Hennig
> 
> PS: What about replacing glpk.ps by glpk.pdf, given that
> 
> * nowadays, PDF provides better accessibility than PS,
> * pdfTeX is known to produce very good (compatible) PDF code,
> * hyper link, outline, PDF meta data, and XMP data support can be easily
> added for PDF output,
> * PDF size is around 260 kB smaller than PS size,
> * ...
> 
> --- glpk.tex  2008-10-30 10:00:00.000000000 +0100
> +++ glpk-2.tex        2008-11-01 14:23:10.328125000 +0100
> @@ -21,6 +21,10 @@
>   %  along with GLPK. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>   %***********************************************************************
> 
> +\RequirePackage{ifpdf}
> +\ifpdf
> +\RequirePackage{cmap}% Improve PDF text search.
> +\fi
>   \documentclass[11pt,draft]{report}
> 
>   \begin{document}
> 
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