Apple Design Award Winners Announced

EccentricAnomaly writes "Apple has announced the winners of this year's Apple Design Awards. And the winners are: Best New Mac OS X Product: Toon Boom; Most Innovative Mac OS X Product: Watson; Best Mac OS X User Experience and Best Mac OS X Technology Adoption: OmniGraffle; Best Mac OS X Open Source port: TeXShop; and Best Mac OS X Student Product: MacJournal." The last one appears to be down, due to "excessive bandwidth consumption." Maybe the Apple Design Awards people should've gotten together with the Apple iTools HomePage people.

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Re:cool

[Matthias Wiesmann]

Actually, there are many advantages for compiling your latex code directly to pdf. In fact, this is what I'm doing on my solaris box.

I used to compile to dvi and then convert to Postscript because most of the figures I used were eps files. Most people in the lab are still working this way. When there are eps figures, xdvi basically call ghostview to convert the eps to a bitmap.

The advantages of compiling to pdf are numerous:

• Compactness - pdf files are very compact.
• Good viewer - previewing your files using acroread means you get good anti-aliasing, which is less tiring.
• Portable, pdf files can be viewed on many plateforms (more that dvi or Postscript at any rate). Also most conferences and journals accept pdf files.
• Better spacing algorithm - pdftex uses a special justification algorithm that tweaks the shape of characters - this avoids some "box overfull" messages.
• The hyper-ref package - all internal references are hyper-links, and the pdf outline is built from the latex structure. Very cool.
• With a little bit of fiddling I built a .bbl file that insert hyper-links to the original paper in the bibliography if there is an "url" entry in the .bib file.