Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 13:42:35 +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote:
>Hi everybody
>
>For my documents, I have to use both LaTeX and pdfLaTeX. The problem I
>have is, pdflatex does not (at least per default) understand .eps and
>.ps files. So I have to convert my .eps figures from gnuplot into .png
>for pdflatex in order to use them. The other way round, "normal" LaTeX
>does not understand the .png format, so any photos or scanned-in images
>have to be converted into .ps. My question now is: Are there any
>\usepackage{s} for making use of .ps in pdflatex and .png in LaTeX?
>Anything better than
>for i in *.eps; do convert $i `echo $i | sed s/.eps/.png/`
I've had trouble a time or two with pdflatex (but hadn't really
associated it with ps/eps :} ). My solution has been to use ps2pdf[x]
or dvipdf to yield the pdf files. Of course, I'm talking fairly small
files, so I have no feel for the time the double processing would take
on a large file.
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