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11/17/2001 Entry: "Tex2pdf/Lyx2pdf Homepage"

Tex2pdf/Lyx2pdf Homepage
The major goal of the tex2pdf script is to help people who do not know a lot
about LaTeX or PDF generation (like me :-) to obtain a useable PDF document
without spending a lot of time on this issue.
Additionally, it might be even a useful tool for someone who knows about all
these tricks, tools and everything, but wants to have it quick!
Anyway, I hope people can make use of it.

tex2pdf (formerly lyx2pdf) is a script that generates a PDF document from a
LaTeX or LyX document using pdf(la)tex, hyperref and other tools. There is a
bash shell and Perl implementation available. (The bash port is no longer
maintained and is considered deprecated.)
When the input file is a LyX document the script produces a LaTeX file with the
LyX export function first and than processes the exported LaTeX document.
LaTeX documents are searched for referenced files (other LaTeX docs, images),
prepared for pdflatex, included EPS/PS/PSTEX images are converted to PDF with epstopdf and finally the script runs pdflatex, bibtex, makeindex and thumbpdf.
The entire behavior can be adjusted to your personal needs and workarounds for
known problems with called applications are already integrated.