Re: teTeX 3.0: new default LaTeX engine

I

am picking an old mail because the subject is the same

On Friday 18 February 2005 06:16, you wrote:
> > I have read the 'teTeX Manual' and I have a question. Section 4.6 said
> > that now teTeX uses pdfetex as default (La)TeX engine. But AFAIK pdftex
> > uses only pdf and rasters graphics.
>
> pdftex can operare in two modes: dvi and pdf. In dvi mode, this is more
> or less the same than good-old-tex (even in dvi mode, you can make use
> of typographic extensions, to that's one advantage of using the pdftex
> engine by default).
>
> Most people think that pdftex can only produce pdf but this is just
> wrong. It could produce dvi as well since its fist version. Even more,
> the default mode is dvi, so you have to set \pdfoutput to something
> non-zero to get into pdf mode (this is done in the .ini files which
> generate the formats such as pdflatex, pdftex, pdfetex).
>
This is almost certain true but now I'm not anymore able to compile a final 
version of an accepted article by Non linear Process in Geophysics

http://www.copernicus.org/EGU/npg/guidelines_for_manuscript_and_article.html

the problem is most certainly in the class file they provide

http://www.copernicus.org/guidelines/egu.cls

with this class using tetex -3.0 by default   output is in pdf and I get the 
errors,

! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps.


if i put after document class 

\pdfoutput 0

I get the error

(/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/ot1phv.fd)
pdfTeX error (ext1): \pdfliteral used while \pdfoutput is not set.
\Gscale@start ->\pdfliteral
  

If no-one knows a quick answer to this problem I'll have to downgrade because 
I need to send the final version to the Editor.

My best regrads,

                     António Tomé