Output Profiles

The LaTeX files are just simple text files. To get a printable output, they have to be compiled. Current TeX distributions support several formats like the TeX-specific DVI-format, PostScript or the famous PDF-format.

Where other editors can only produce one format as output, TeXnicCenter allows to use all the output formats, available by TeX distributions or additional filters.

Concept

For each output format used, an output profile has to be defined first. The number of output profiles in TeXnicCenter is not limited.

Properties of an output profile: