Re: [AUCTeX] Creating ps and pdf files

[David Scott]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2006, Adam Johnson wrote:

> Sent: Saturday, January 14, 2006 6:09 AM
> Subject: Re: [AUCTeX] Creating ps and pdf files
>
>
> > > On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Ralf Angeli wrote:
>
> > Chaining these commands to have something like a fully
> > automatic compile cycle from source to final output is not supported
> > out of the box yet.
>
> In Windows O/S, I usually write a short aaa.bat file, and add it to the 
> command list.
> It always takes me from .tex & .bib to .dvi & .ps & .pdf and view it in a 
> viewer in one step.
> (Make sure your tex code without any error.)
> But it takes longer time. Acrobat will lock a file after it opens the file.
>
> In a similar way, when I write slides using HA-prosper, I view the results in 
> ps format instead of dvi.

I worked out the .bat file idea myself and have nearly got it. For example 
here is my .bat to process prosper files:

latex %1
dvips -o %1.ps %1.dvi
ps2pdf12.bat %1.ps %1.pdf
AcroRd32 %1.pdf

which works fine except for the last line. I can't get acroread to fire 
up. Maybe it is to do with the locking that you mention. If I can get over 
that I will be very happy.

My general aim is to be able to use XEmacs on Windows as well as Unix (my 
preferred system). Currently on Unix I either use a Makefile or shell 
programs akin to the .bat above. This discussion has been very helpful 
because I can see now how I can do all my processing on Unix from XEmacs 
as well.

Thanks

David Scott


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