On 13 Oct 2003, l wrote:
> I posted my question here almost 2 weeks ago and since that time I
> have had a bit frustrating excursion to the world of LaTeX , Textures
> and graphics. I am not a computing specialist and I always assumed
> that LaTeX code is very ****table between different systems and that
> there is a stardard and easy way to include postscript graphics files
> which I assumed are also very much machine and system independent.
> Well, now I know that this is clearly not the case...
>
> Just for the record let me re****t what I tried to do and what finally
> worked.
>
> I have been happy with Textures on my macintosh laptop (from 1997)
> but I needed to include graphics created by Adobe Photoshop Elements
> which I have on a PC running windows XP and I did not want to use the
> Textures \special command (which does work fine but puts all the
> graphics into a single scrapbook that cannot be accessed outside of
> Textures). I wanted to include the graphics and run Textures on my mac
> and create postscript and pdf versions of my LaTeX do***ent. This has
> worked always fine without the graphics.
EPS files are hard to get even on a single platform, but if you cross
platforms you run increased risks of problems with fonts, format
of embedded preview images, etc. PDF avoids these issues, and it
is possible to embed PDF files in TeX do***ents.
> I must re****t that I tried all kinds of combinations of graphics file
> types (mainly I used EPS) and several packages and commands with
> Textures that have been suggested on the web and on the discussion
> forums over hte years. But I never succeeded in making the Textures
> typeset window show my graphics. The dvi file showed them in one
> occasion but even then I was unable to create a pdf file from that dvi
> file.
>
> I then loaded Miktex program for my PC (I should have done it years
> ago!!) and although it is no competition to Textures in preparing the
> text and formulas in my do***ent, I must say that for the purpose of
> doing what I wanted (i.e. including graphics files) it worked. I saved
> the graphics as TIFF files (like mypic.tif) and then include a BB file
> (mypic.bb) which includes the so called BoundingBox dimensions and
> then both pdflatex and dvips of Miktex work just fine. Even here I
> first got a lot of trouble because of "missing BoundingBox" in my EPS
> files. I then figured that using TIF files and separate files to give
> those BoundingBoxes solved the problem.
TIFF is not a practical solution for line art as it doesn't scale.
PDF files sup****t both images and vector graphics (even combinations
with line art overlaid on images) and, if prepared properly (to set
the MediaBox values), don't need extra work to define the BBox.
> I suppose a lot of people in science/math departments/in companies are
> working using Unix or Linux and there is probably less problems with
> LaTeX and graphics files with those systems.
Pdftex is available for Mac OSX, Win32, and *n*x. It is a much more
robust tool for cross platform environments.
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