[Help-glpk] producing PDF documentation

[Robbie Morrison]

Hello all

For those interested in PDF format documentation.

There are three ways of producing PDF documentation
from the GLPK tarball on my circa-2006 GNU/Linux
system.  Using the GLPK API manual as an example,
one can:

  $ ps2pdf   doc/glpk.ps   # PostScript file
  $ dvipdfm  doc/glpk.dvi  # DVI file
  $ pdflatex doc/glpk.tex  # TeX file, run three times

The 'pdflatex' utility needs to be run three times to
resolve the various cross-references.  Also, up to and
including GLPK 4.31, 'glpk.tex' was named 'glpk.latex'. ;-)

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.

This email follows up an similar posting on 22-May-2008.

Version information:

  ps2pdf   : ESP Ghostscript 8.15.2 (2006-04-19), 2004
  dvipdfm  : version 0.13.2c, 1999
  pdflatex : pdfeTeX 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
  evince   : Gnome evince 0.6.1
  acroread : 7.0.9

best wishes to all, Robbie
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Robbie Morrison
PhD student -- policy-oriented energy system simulation
Technical University of Berlin (TU-Berlin), Germany
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