Bug#202770: tetex-extra: unable to include tif images when using pdflatex

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Ilja <ilja.bezrukov@gmx.net> schrieb:

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0.2-4
> Severity: normal
>
>
> -- System Information
> Debian Release: testing/unstable
> Kernel Version: Linux tomcat 2.4.20 #1 Mit Apr 23 21:51:32 CEST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> Versions of the packages tetex-extra depends on:
> ii  dpkg           1.10.10        Package maintenance system for Debian
> ii  gsfonts        6.0-2.1        Fonts for the ghostscript interpreter
> ii  tetex-base     2.0.2-4	  basic teTeX library files
> ii  tetex-bin      2.0.2-4.1 	  teTeX binary files
>
> Hi, I think I have spotted a bug in tetex-extra:
>
> when I try to include tif images, I get the following error:

This is not really a bug. The bug is probably that 

src/tetex-bin-2.0.2/texk/web2c/pdftexdir/NEWS

is not included in any Debian tetex package. There it says:

,----
| - The support for the inclusion of tif images has been removed as it was of
|   limited use (it worked only for gray-scale and rgb images) and produced wrong
|   results (all other images types where treated as rgb images). 
|   Tif images can be converted on *nix on-the-fly to pngs with the help of
|   ImageMagick, epstopdf.sty or pdftex.def v0.4 or newer, and this rule:
|     \DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `basename #1 .tif`.png}
`----

So put the above line into your file, make sure that the imagemagick
package is installed, and everything should work with the new version.

If you find it works, we should close this bug (but open a new one
concerning the missing NEWS files, there are quite a bit). I'll try to
not forget that.

Bye, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie