[OS X TeX] EPS vs PDF figures

[Alan Curtis]

On Nov 19, 2004, at 1:28 PM, Chris Goedde wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I'm in the process of transfering my TeX workflow from an HP/UX
> machine to my new G5 iMac. I currently use EPS figures and
> dvips+ghostscript. I have a couple questions.
>
> (1) Is there a pdf replacement for the psfrags package? If not, what
> do people who use PDF figures do to place TeX text on them? Is this
> where things like Equation Editor come in?

I suggest you try WARMFigToPDF at http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/WFTPDF/

>
> (2) How do people here typically produce EPS figures under Mac OS X
> from programs like Excel and Matlab? Under OS 9, there was an option
> when saving to a file to save as an EPS. This seems to be gone under
> OS X, the only choices I see are PDF and Postscript, not EPS. Maybe
> I just need to install/use some other printer driver?

Excel I don't know (print to postscript and eps2eps?). MATLAB, I use 
the command line "print 'Figure' -depsc -adobec" to create an eps 
figure file 'Figure.eps'.

Alan

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