Re: Determining pdf vs. dvi output at runtime

"Hans F. Nordhaug" <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Jun 2005 10:11:00 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.tetex.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 03:16:14AM -0700, Jon Leech wrote:
> I have a document using this macro to control various actions depending on 
> whether it was
> being built under regular (pre-3.0) latex, or pdflatex:
> 
> \newif\ifpdf
> \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
>   \pdffalse % we are not running PDFLaTeX
> \else
>   \pdfoutput=1 % we are running PDFLaTeX
>   \pdftrue
> \fi

Look at the ifpdf package. 

Hans