[fptex] fptex 0.7 - is \write18 working properly?

Fabrice Popineau Fabrice.Popineau at supelec.fr
Wed Oct 15 14:17:54 CEST 2003


> Enabling it in config.ps still won't work. Same error. My knowledge of
> TeX is limited but it appears that the error is caused by tex trying
> to create the file test.bb so that the BoundingBox information becomes
> available when the dvi file is being created.

If you are using latex (and not pdflatex), then the .bb file is needed
to determine the dimensions of the graphic. You can create the .bb file
by extracting the BoundingBox line from the output of "jpeg2ps foo.jpg".

Fabrice



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