[tex-k] Fwd: TeXShop/teTeX speed using TeX+ghostscript

[The Thanh Han]

On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 12:33:31AM +0200, Martin Schroeder wrote:
> On 2002-10-11 19:00:29 +0200, Olaf Weber wrote:
> > Gerben Wierda writes:
> > > The current --ipc implementation seems to be (from the man page) to
> > > write DVI to a socket. The man page doesn't say what/which socket. I
> > > would like to know if this is true for pdfTeX also.
> > 
> > "probably"
> 
> But only when producing DVI. Incrementally writing pdf is
> difficult if possible at all.

it is possible with a few changes -- at the moment pdftex uses a few seek's
that can be removed (at the price that the pdf output will be showwhat
larger).

Thanh