Hi StefanI really like the makefile approach, but I will have to read the "make"-nutshell book before I understand what the snipped you gave me really does...
Thanks anyway. joerg <snip>
I would use a Makefile like -----------------[snip!]----------------------- FROM = $(subst .eps,.pdf, $(wildcard *.eps)) all:: $(FROM) %.pdf: %.eps epstopdf $< > $@ -----------------[snip!]----------------------- to convert only the eps files that changed to pdf. You can also use a makefile for running LaTeX on you .tex documents ... experiment!
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