Re: [OT] latex, pdflatex and graphics formats

[Jörg Johannes <liste_joerg@gmx.de>]

Hello Johann

I'm not sure if we understand each other. I'll ask you what is unclear 
in comments below:
Johann Spies schrieb:

> \newif\ifpdf
> \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined
>    \pdffalse
>    \documentclass[dvips,12pt,a4paper]{article}
> \else
>    \pdfoutput=1 \let\special\message
>    \pdftrue
>    \documentclass[pdftex,12pt,a4paper]{article}
> \fi
>  
This determines if I run pdflatex file.tex or latex file.tex and changes 
the documentclass accordingly, right? Cool, I always had to do that by 
hand.

> \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} 
>  
This is my point: I want to be able to put 
\includegraphics{outfile-of-gnuplot} (this means outfile-of-gnuplot.eps) 
in the text without having to convert it from .eps to .png. (Or am I too 
silly to see that .mps stands for .ps and .eps?)

> \else
>      \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps,.ps}
Same here: \includegraphics{scanned-image} won't find scanned-image.png, 
will it?

> \fi
>
> \end{document}               % End of document
>  
Sorry I'm not sitting in front of my own box, no latex here, so no 
chance to try it out at the moment.
I will try this evening and come back to you tomorow. Thanks so far

joerg