Hi, Michael and Shaheen,
Thanks for the tips! Both png and pdf files are working for me now.
Cheers,
Hidong
"Michael R. Anderson" wrote:
>
> February 5, 2001
>
> Here's some relevant information from the manual for pdftex (version 0.12+):
>
> 5 Graphics and color
> Probably the biggest single usage problem with pdfT E X at the present time is
> the inclusion of graphics. The program only directly supports graphic inclusion
> in one bitmap format, PNG (Portable Network Graphics).
> Two commonly-used techniques are not available - the inclusion of Encap-sulated
> PostScript figures, and the inclusion of raw PostScript commands (the
> techique utilized by the pstricks package). Although PDF is a direct descendant
> of PostScript, it lacks any programming language commands, and cannot deal
> with arbitrary PostScript. There are two ways to proceed with existing EPS
> files: firstly, convert them to PNG (using programs like Image Magick, Image
> Alchemy, or Ghostscript); or secondly, try converting them to simple PDF. If the
> picture has no special fonts, the chances are quite good that Ghostscript's pdf
> writer will produce a file containing a single PDF object, which can be included
> using \pdfliteral commands (this is managed by the standard L A T E X graphics
> package).
> Other alternatives for graphics in pdfT E X are:
> 1. L A T E X picture mode: since this is implemented simply in terms of font
> characters, it works in exactly the same way as usual;
> 2. Xy-pic: If the PostScript backend is not requested, Xy-pic uses its own
> Type 1 fonts, and needs no special attention;
> 3. tpic: The 'tpic' \special commands (used in some macro packages) can
> be redefined to produce literal PDF, using macros by Hans Hagen;
> 4. MetaPost: although the output of MetaPost is PostScript, it is in a highly
> simplified form, and a MetaPost to PDF conversion (written by Hans
> Hagen and Tanmoy Bhattacharya) is implemented as a set of macros which
> read MetaPost output and support all of its features;
> 5. It is possible to insert a "pure" PDF file (PDF that has only one page
> without fonts, bitmaps or other resources) using a macro package that
> reads the external PDF file line by line.
> The two latter macro packages are part of CONT E XT (supp-pdf.tex and
> supp-mis.tex), but also work with L A T E X and are distributed separately.
> For new work, the MetaPost route is highly recommended. For the future,
> Adobe have announced that they will define a specification for 'encapsulated
> PDF', and this should solve some of the present difficulties.
>
> Regards,
>
> Mike Anderson
>
> On Sunday, February 04, 2001 1:31 AM, Hidong Kim [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>wrote:
> > Hi, Shaheen,
> >
> > Thanks for the Perl script. I'm still in a bit of a bind. I would like
> > to use pdflatex to convert latex files to pdf. But pdflatex doesn't
> > like postscript files. I get this error message when I try to run
> > pdflatex on a latex file which contains a postscript figure:
> >
> > ! LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .ps.
> >
> > See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
> > Type H <return> for immediate help.
> > ...
> >
> > l.166 ...im/emerald/cytokinetics/soakzoom1pred.ps}
> >
> >
> >
> > I can compile this particular latex file to get the correct dvi file.
> > pdflatex also doesn't like gif figures. How do I get pdflatex to
> > incorporate figures in a latex file? Thanks,
> >
> >
> >
> > Hidong
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Shaheen Tonse wrote:
> > >
> > > I just subscribed a few minutes ago and missed the beginning of the
> > > thread,
> > > but included here is a perl script that uses ghostscript to convert .eps
> > > and .ps to .gif (via portable pixel map .ppm format).
> > > Shaheen Tonse.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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