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This document provides instructions for compiling a .tex file into a .pdf file using pdflatex. It recommends installing pdflatex, acroread PDF viewer, ghostscript, and ghostview or gv. The instructions specify putting all .tex source files in a directory, changing to that directory, and running "pdflatex file.tex" on the main file three times to generate a valid table of contents in the resulting .pdf.

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Template: 1.1 How To Compile A File To A File

This document provides instructions for compiling a .tex file into a .pdf file using pdflatex. It recommends installing pdflatex, acroread PDF viewer, ghostscript, and ghostview or gv. The instructions specify putting all .tex source files in a directory, changing to that directory, and running "pdflatex file.tex" on the main file three times to generate a valid table of contents in the resulting .pdf.

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Chapter 1

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1.1

How to compile a .tex file to a .pdf file

1.1.1 Tools
To process the files you (may) need:
pdflatex (for example from tetex package 0.9-6, which you can
get from Red Hat 5.2);
acroread (a PDF viewer, available from http://www.adobe.com/);
ghostscript 5.10 (for example from Red Hat Contrib) and ghostview
or gv (from RedHat Linux);
efax package could be useful, if you plan to fax documents.

1.1.2 How to use the tools


Follow these steps:
1. put all source .tex files in one directory, then chdir to the directory (or put
some of them in the LATEXsearch path if you know how to do this);
2. run pdflatex file.tex on the main file of the document three times
(three to prepare valid table of contents);
3. to see or print the result use acroread (unfortunately some versions of
acroread may produce PostScript which is too complex), or
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