Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

[Thomas Halahan <tom@halahan.com>]

Joerg,

I use 2 ways

1) The ps route is good if you have lots of ps figures.

> pslatex filename.tex
> dvips filename -o
> ps2pdf filename.ps

the pslatex embeds the fonts for you, it is like using 
\usepackage{times}.  the ps2pdf results are better this way.  you can 
then also use the psfrag package for example (which works with dvips).


OR..

2) only refer to your images without the extension.

\includegraphics{filename}

then convert all your images to pdf using the "eps2pdf" perl script 
(came with potato).

> eps2pdf *.ps

now run pdflatex and your graphics will be included.


Hope this helps.

Tom


On 13 11:12 am, Joerg Johannes wrote:
> To all pdflatex-users
>
> I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command.
> This works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex
> cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex --> xdvi shows
> them...). Do I have to include them in a special format (I tried
> .bmp, .png, .ps as input; latex --> dvi makes it all, but pdflatex
> just leaves space...) How can I do this?
>
> thanks
>
> joerg