Re: Use dvipdfm instead of pdflatex?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paminu <sdef@asd.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 07:58:07 +0100
> > 
> > pdflatex can definitely include images (in "epdf" form).
> > 
> > 
> >         Stefan
> 
> well not on my Ubuntu system. I include the picture like this:
> 
> \begin{center}
> \includegraphics[width=10cm]{dia}
> \end{center}
> 
> where dia is dia.pdf and dia.eps in the same dir as my .tex file. When I
> choose to genereate a PDF file from emacs:
> Command -> Texing Options -> PDF mode
> 
> the image is gone in the PDF file that is generated.
> 
> If I instead use dvipdfm it works fine, so it could be very nice to make
> emacs use dvipdfm instead of pdflatex.

Last time I looked, dvipdfm didn't produce clickable links from
cross-references, while pdflatex does.  So I think your suggestion is
not a very good idea; I'd rather suggest that you install a better
version of pdflatex that solves the problem in the first place.