[OS X TeX] Who should use (La)TeX - who is able to use it?

[Luis Sequeira]

>Thank you, Joseph
>
>I use TeXShop ie TeX/LaTeX but I am not familiar with metapost, mfpic,
>and/or  xfig.
>Are they packages, graphics apps, or utilities. They are discussed
>where?
>I have been converting all my figures (in Superpaint) from whatever to
>eps. Then, using
>pkg eps2pdf to put them in pdf format. Not very successful for me.
>Sorry for being so dense. Tell me where and I'll find out about what
>needs doing.
>Thanx,
>
>Jack

If you have to convert a lot of image files to eps or to pdf, you can 
do it very quickly with Graphic Converter. It has a "Convert and 
Modify" command that can do this in a batch. And it opens over a 
hundred and fifty different graphics formats, so I bet whatever 
format Superpaint used it will work (I vaguely remember trying 
Superpaint quite a few years ago - a sort of a cross between MacPaint 
and MacDraw :-))

Graphic Converter is shareware and you may even have it in your mac 
(it was bundled with new macs for a while, I don't know if it still 
is); you can look for it in www.versiontracker.com

Luis Sequeira
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