On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 01:52:45PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> I agree that that one looks pretty as far as the fonts are concerned. But
> for the manual as a whole does 'dvips ....; ps2pdf ...' create the thumbnails
> etc pp that the pdf would contain with pdflatex?
Hi Dirk
You are right, ps2pdf makes no thumbnails. Would you like to try the
attached patch, so we can try to massage randist.tex and its friends and
keep going the pdftex way, without sacrificing pictures for thumbnails?
regards
peppe
--- gsl-1.6/debian/rules 2005-04-10 12:45:39.326184874 +0200
+++ gsl-1.6/debian/rules.peppe 2005-04-10 12:46:14.321419788 +0200
@@ -67,6 +67,16 @@
#cd doc && $(MAKE) ps
# make pdf
cd doc && \
+ cp -p randist.texi randist.texi.orig && \
+ sed 's/^.*\\input \(rand.*\)\.tex.*$$/@end [EMAIL PROTECTED] @[EMAIL
PROTECTED]/' \
+ randist.texi.orig > randist.texi && \
+ for i in rand-*.tex random-walk.tex ; do \
+ echo Converting $$i to eps; \
+ j=`basename $$i .tex`; \
+ tex "\batchmode\nopagenumbers\input $$j\bye"; \
+ dvips $$j; \
+ ps2eps -f $$j.ps; \
+ done && \
for i in *.eps; do \
echo Converting $$i to pdf... && epstopdf $$i ; \
done && $(MAKE) pdf
