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<font size=3>Hi Karl,<br><br>
Thanks! But it seems that things are highly installation dependent, and
on the output options you choose. My experience was quite different from
yours!<br><br>
Perhaps I should explain that in my old age, I had to learn TeX and LaTeX
earlier this year, because equations are an absolute pain with Word (but
almost everything else, for example tables, seems to be a pain in
LaTeX!), and I no longer have a secretary, to whom I had been able to
delegate LaTeX tasks in the past. I would like to get .pdf output, with
minimal aggravation. And I'd hate to do external
conversions.<br><br>
Here is some advice from an old fogey (I am older than Donald Knuth). In
my opinion, TeX and LaTeX are more user-unfriendly than necessary. Some
30 years ago, I did some software development myself, for interactive
data analysis. Very early on, I learned the hard way that it is
absolutely essential to provide defaults whenever possible, and to help
the user rather than to produce errors and aborts. I know that this is
not easy. And I now found out to my surprise that the TeX-people are yet
to learn this lesson! For example: if you include graphics, then the
software should choose a sensible default location and size (typically:
fit on the page), and if possible, print the bb chosen as a warning (so
that one can adjust it).<br><br>
Here are some examples of the mess produced by my installation of
TeX:<br><br>
With the output option LaTeX => PDF in TeXnicCenter, my
installation recognizes .jpg, but refuses everything else (I tried .eps,
.bmp and .tif)<br><br>
However, I then could get .eps to work *without* converting it to .pdf
first, namely by using the output option LaTeX => PS => PDF. This
works with both .eps and .jpg, but not with .bmp and .tif. But it
produces only B/W output (this is a problem with the conversion of
graphics to PostScript).<br><br>
With LaTeX => DVI output, it worked with .eps, .jpg and .bmp,
but my .tif example (which works fine with Word) produced a fatal
PostScript error. This variant can do color.<br><br>
Yours,<br>
Peter<br>
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At 00:46 11.06.2007, Karl Berry wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">Hi Peter,<br><br>
I can't answer your first question, having never used miktex or<br>
texniccenter, but as for your second:<br><br>
(2) Is there any easy way (as in Word) to include
different graphics <br>
(eps, jpg, tiff, bmp) in a single document?<br><br>
You can include common formats *except* eps in a pdflatex document
with<br>
the normal \includegraphics (or whatever).<br><br>
You have to convert eps to pdf first (Word must do that for you
behind<br>
the scenes). One Windows program to do that conversion is
here:<br>
<a href="http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epspdf/" eudora="autourl">
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epspdf/</a><br><br>
One short introductory article on graphics and TeX is here:<br>
<a href="http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb26-1/hoeppner.pdf" eudora="autourl">
http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb26-1/hoeppner.pdf</a><br><br>
Hope this helps,<br>
karl</font></blockquote></body>
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