[OS X TeX] TexShop engines make me crazy

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.08.2006 um 06:12 schrieb Matthieu Masquelet:

>> \usepackage{ifpdf}
>> \ifpdf
>>   \usepackage{epstopdf}
>>   \usepackage{pdfsync}
>> \fi
>>
>
> Sorry I don't understand... What you say works because I guess I  
> have an EPS version of almost every figure along with a PDF and/or  
> a PNG version. But it crashes for a figure where I only have a png  
> version...

Could be because you are actually *not* using pdfTeX – check your log  
files! Usually they don't lie.

> What I'm trying to do here is using exactly the same typesetting in  
> my engine that when I use the automatic latex typesetting with  
> pdftex using the TexShop interface. Is that possible? If so how can  
> I do this?

It is of course not that bad to have only the one choice ...


Morten's five lines offer some more flexibility. First an extra  
package, ifpdf, is loaded that detects whether you are really running  
pdf(La)TeX – and whether DVI or PDF output format is chosen. If the  
latter is true it first loads the epstopdf, then the pdfsync package.  
It can load more packages like cmap, make use of TrueType fonts ... or

	\usepackage[activate={true,nocompatibility}]{microtype}

which does not work with DVI output. Here you could

	\usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=false]{microtype}

ifpdf enters the DVI output case after a \else. This case is also  
true when you run non-pdf(La)TeX, simpdftex for example.


You can use two different engine files. The first one may use 'latex - 
output-format=dvi' to produce definitely DVI, the other engine may  
have 'pdflatex -output-format=pdf' to produce definitely PDF.

Simpdftex is a shell script that *imitates* a little bit of the  
behaviour of pdf(La)TeX by adding calls to DVI to PS and PS to PDF  
convertors to the simple (La)TeX run.


What do you mean with "automatic latex typesetting?" The header lines  
in your source?

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   Pete

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