When I have TikZ images or I include .png
graphics, I need to use PDFLaTeX instead of plain vanilla
LaTeX. (That is, I need to use PDFLaTeX all the time, rather than just when I want to produce the final PDF).
Sometimes I forget that my current document (or one \include
d in it) contains one of these things. The compilation using latex doesn't work. The errors I get out when this happens don't seem to be meaningful: they don't just say
No such file
image.eps
or
LaTeX can't work TikZ
or the like. Is there anyway I can make these kinds of errors more transparent?
I've often spent ages fiddling with insignificant other bits of code, because I haven't realised it's the image that is messing up the compilation. beamer
also sometimes messes up in LaTeX, but I normally spot that one.
pdflatex
? – Caramdir Aug 1 '10 at 10:44latex
andpdflatex
.latex
takes around 0.64s, whilepdflatex
takes around 0.75s. So you are correct, but I do not think the difference really matters. Also the historic comparison is quite interesting: ftp.complang.tuwien.ac.at/franz/latex-bench – Caramdir Aug 1 '10 at 16:32