Document Classes ⇒ Using IEEEtran with PDFLaTeX

[atpr]

I am trying to use the IEEE document class IEEEtran with pdfLatex (via TexWorks) to produce PDF output. By default, IEEEtran specifies DVI output. The class documentation tells me that there is a CLASSINFO control, \ifCLASSINFOpdf that is set to false by default and controls pdf output. But the docs say absolutely nothing about how to use this! Maybe obvious if you have a deep knowledge of Latex classes but...

How do I use IEEEtran with pdfLatex?

pr

[localghost]

[…] By default, IEEEtran specifies DVI output. […]

Who told you so? The below example compiles flawlessly with PDFLaTeX.

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\documentclass[english]{IEEEtran}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{babel}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
  \blinddocument
\end{document}

Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[atpr]

I came to this conclusion from downloading a copy of the bare journal tex file from the IEEE and adding small section of text. This worked fine with BakomaTex on Windows (which I believe uses DVI). When I tried to move to pdfLatex on Linux I got an output from Latexmk that said:

...
-- Using DVI output.
...

and finally:

...
Latexmk: Log file says output to 'myfile.dvi'
Latexmk: ===For rule 'pdflatex', actual output 'myfile.dvi'
======appears not to match expected output 'myfile.pdf'
...
Failure to make 'myfile.pdf'
Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):
pdflatex: failed to create output file
Latexmk: Use the -f option to force complete processing.
Latexmk: Errors, so I did not complete making targets

However, having retraced my steps (but this time downloading the bare journal file from CTAN), it all works! So the problem has gone away... although I don't know why!

pr

[atpr]

Just to tidy things up: I have finally found the reason for this odd behaviour!!! It's caused by BakomaTex which inserts "%&latex" as the first line of a file. This produce the weird error above. Delete this extra line and it all works beautifully!