[Tex/LaTex] DVI to PDF Converter

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I am converting a dvi file to a pdf, but in that process my figures are misplaced. I used \FloatBarrier command to fix the figures in dvi, but facing the same problems in pdf. Can any one help?

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There's a utility called dvipdfm that can do this. It probably came with your TeX distribution. Try this at the command line:

dvipdfm myfile.dvi

This should create a file called myfile.pdf. If you run into trouble, the documentation can be found in http://gaspra.kettering.edu/dvipdfm/.

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