[projectaon] Re: latex images

  • From: "Jonathan Blake" <blake.jon@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: projectaon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 10:52:46 -0800

On 3/2/06, Cavallo Goloso <cgoloso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I have some of the images already converted to
> > PDF ... somewhere. I was using a GhostScript script
> > that converted our GIF files to PDF.
>
> Embedded postscript (.eps) is the native format for inclusion in latex
> files. There are lots of tools able to batch convert the originals -a
> platform agnostic one being ImageMagick- but they all boil down using
> ghostscript has their conversion engine. I think that Javier will be
> fine with just the GIFs ;) R

The reason we used PDFs is because we used pdfLaTeX to output PDF
directly. It didn't take EPS images.

You know, I've never used ImageMagick. After all these years of
hearing about it, I'm going to have to check it out.

--
Jon

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