Re: getting eps graphics to take in pdf
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On Tuesday 24 April 2001 05:11, Taketoshi Sano wrote:
> Hi. Sorry to be late in responding. I've been so busy lately.
>
> In <0104210103050K.03483@storm>,
> on "Sat, 21 Apr 2001 01:03:05 -0400",
>
> Jesse Goerz <jgoerz@linuxfreemail.com> wrote:
> > I'm using sgmltools-lite 3.0.2 for potato. I haven't been able to get
> > eps, ps, gif, or any other format to take in an outputted pdf file. The
> > only ones that seem to work are the included admonitions graphics. I
> > converted the custom graphics I have to pdf as well but that format isn't
> > supported it seems. Can anyone help me?
>
> Suppose you did "sgmltools -b pdf <some-docbook-sgml-source>".
>
> sgmltools just uses pdfjadetex, and it uses pdftex to produce
> the PDF output. Unfortunately, pdftex can handle graphics only
> in .png, .jpg, .mps and .pdf according to the description in
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/graphics/pdftex.def on potato system.
Thank you. I didn't know that. That would explain why the .pdf admonition
graphics worked but nothing else. I'll adjust accordingly in our custom
print stylesheet.
>
> So you can't use eps, ps, nor gif files in your pdftex source.
>
> I think the advice from Kenneth Geisshirt <kenneth@geisshirt.dk>
> is useful information for you to switch the graphics format in
> your source. Remember you need graphics in all formats which will
> be used by tex/pdftex in conversion.
Yes, I tried this unsucessfully. Now that I've read up a little more on
stylesheets I'll re-examine his method. I don't think I fully understood
(not that I do now;-) or implemented it correctly before. Again, Thank you.
>
> Regards.
jesse
p.s. I'm following the debian-sgml list so if you post there you don't need
to cc me;-)
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