Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2002 at 01:42:35PM +0100, Jörg Johannes wrote:

> 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/`
> ?

To solve this problem I use this in my template (I can't remember
whether this list or the latex newsgroup helped me with it):
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\newif\ifpdf
\ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
    \pdffalse
    \documentclass[dvips,12pt,a4paper]{article}
\else
    \pdfoutput=1 \let\special\message
    \pdftrue
    \documentclass[pdftex,12pt,a4paper]{article}
\fi
....
\ifpdf
   
    \usepackage[hyperindex=true]{hyperref}
    \usepackage{pslatex}
    \pdfcompresslevel=9
\else
    \usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}
    \usepackage[hypertex,hyperindex=true,colorlinks=false]{hyperref}
\fi
....
\begin{document}             % End of preamble and beginning of text.
\ifpdf
      \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.png,.pdf,.jpeg,.jpg,.mps} 
\else
      \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps,.ps}
\fi


\end{document}               % End of document
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Regards.
Johann
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