General ⇒ Additional Files produced by "Build and View"

[bkennedy]

Hi all,

I have a query that somebody might be able to advise me with. When I select the option "Build and View" in Tex at the moment my tex file is automatically converted into PDF which is fine.

However, when i select "Build and View" 7 additional files are also created and these 7 files are as follows:

performance monitor file
DVI file
Text Document
Adobe
Post-script
Latex Document
Aux file
Bbx file

The attached PDF file shows how all these additional files appear after selecting "Build and View". What I would like to do is make a change with my settings such that when I select "Build and View" the only other file that appears in the folder is the PDF file. I am sure that the remaining files: aux,bbx,DVI are doing important work but I am not directly interested in them and when you have a lot of text file in the one folder these additional files, aux bbx etc. take up a lot of space.

Any advice you might be able to provide regarding this problem would be greatly welcomed.

Kind regards,
Bernard.

[fatra2]

Hi there,

You are right, the .log, .aux, and .bbx files are important. They are the files that help compile your latex code into .pdf. You can also take a look into these files to see what happened last time you compiled.

For the other files: .ps, .dvi are there because you must compile your code into .dvi first, then transform it into .ps and then only into .pdf. You could avoid doing so many transformation by compiling directly into .pdf with pdflatex. This would avoid having the very heavy post-script file.

Hope this helps.