General ⇒ ps in texlive

[mornington]

Hi,

I use MikTex with Texniccenter usually, but due to circumstances I have to use my university's Texlive distribution with no frontend. So to compile I have written a small batch file, which is:

:: Begin
@ECHO ON
cd "Y:\texlive\2008\bin\win32"
y:
pdflatex -output-format=pdf -output-directory="E:\Desktop\Innovation\Draft" "E:\Desktop\Innovation\Draft\_draft2.tex"
bibtex "E:\Desktop\Innovation\Draft\_draft2.aux"
pdflatex -output-format=pdf -output-directory="E:\Desktop\Innovation\Draft" "E:\Desktop\Innovation\Draft\_draft2.tex"
pdflatex -output-format=pdf -output-directory="E:\Desktop\Innovation\Draft" "E:\Desktop\Innovation\Draft\_draft2.tex"
pause
:: End

I have two questions:
1) I have an \includegraphics{figure.eps} statement in my .tex file and this will obviously not compile with pdflatex. Is there a way to compile to ps with standard release texlive?

2) Secondly, my bibliography does not show up in the pdf. Any obvious reasons for this?

Thanks,

T

[kaiserkarl13]

I'm not precisely sure of the exact setup you're using, but perhaps the following will work:

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:: Begin
@ECHO ON
Y:\texlive\2008\bin\win32\pdflatex "_draft2.tex"
Y:\texlive\2008\bin\win32\bibtex "_draft2.aux"
Y:\texlive\2008\bin\win32\pdflatex "_draft2.tex"
Y:\texlive\2008\bin\win32\pdflatex "_draft2.tex"
pause
:: End

Then run the batch file from the place you have the original file. Your bib and tex files can then be in that directory as well.

As for the EPS images, run this from the directory containing "image.eps"

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epstopdf image.eps

You might have to provide the full path to epstopdf, which should be installed as part of Ghostscript. TexLIVE usually installs it somewhere if it isn't installed already.

Change all your \includegraphics{image.eps} to simply \includegraphics{image} and it will automatically pick out the .pdf (PDFLaTeX) or .eps (LaTeX) extension for you.

(PDFLaTeX doesn't handle .ps files any better than .eps files, as those are the same format up to the bounding box.)

[mornington]

Thank you so much! It worked like a charm...