[OS X TeX] A Textures Query (yet, again)
Jack Kuipers
kprs at calvin.edu
Sat Sep 17 00:48:14 CEST 2005
I want to thank you all for your response. I'm overwhelmed!
And I am confident that somewhere in all of this that you contributed,
there is a solution.
I will find it! ... but I am an old person (mid-80's), still stubborn
enough to want to fix what, in retrospect, I should have made more
clear the first time. ... and, include other stuff interesting to me.
Thankfully, I'm in an environment with many young guru's (tho, they
never heard of Textures) who will help me parse thru your kind
offerings and suggestions. They know unix, scripts, and lots of other
stuff; I don't.
I take that back! I KNOW lots of other stuff. I am a confident TeXShop
user. I only know what I know.
Anyway, if anything comes of my effort I must and certainly will
acknowledge this most helpful MacOSX-TeX community.
I will give occasional progress reports (for the record, if useful).
Thank you again.
Bless you all,
Jack Kuipers
On 16 Sep, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Donal Day wrote:
> Ross Moore wrote:
>
>> Hello Jack,
>>
>> On 16/09/2005, at 3:15 AM, Jack Kuipers wrote:
>>
>>>> I have a large TEXTURES file which when typeset produces all
>>>> 400+ pages including 100++ figures which comprise my Quaternion
>>>> Book.
>>>> All of these output pdf.pages were furnished to and used by
>>>> Princeton University Press
>>>> as camera-ready for the publication of the book (5 years ago).
>>>> These original Textures (LaTeX)
>>>> files were produced on my Macintosh Computers: OS 7x (or earlier),
>>>> 8x, to 9.2.2. And all the figures
>>>> are, of course, embedded within the Textures software either as
>>>> pict or eps or somesuch.
>>>>
>>>> HOWEVER, I am now committed to using MacOSX (currently Panther)
>>>> and TeXShop 1.5.3e --- and
>>>> have become rather nimble in doing all the NEW stuff with figures,
>>>> pictures, tables, etal. Moreover,
>>>> I'm even now lusting to upgrade to Tiger. BUT.....
>>>>
>>>> IS THERE A WAY TO SALVAGE OR CONVERT THE INFORMATION IN MY OLD
>>>> TEXTURES FILES or RUN
>>>> THEM UNDER TeXShop 1.5.3e or later?
>>>
>>
>> I went through this exercise recently for a book, authored by a
>> colleague,
>> that needed revision after 7 years (or so).
>>
>>
>>>> HOW, first of all, to get all of the figures back out of TEXTURES
>>>> ----
>>>> and then to get them all properly converted (say, using
>>>> GraphicConverter batch) is the primary issue;
>>>>
>>>> I can do ONE figure (at a time) --- but 100++ figures??? I might
>>>> not survive it.
>>>> ANY suggestions would be so very much welcomed. Thank you in
>>>> advance, and
>>>
>>
>> Firstly, you need all of the figures in separate .eps or .pdf files.
>> Others have commented on how to achieve this, depending on how the
>> graphics were originally stored for use with Textures.
>>
>> Secondly, what I always advocate is to have a separate macro-name for
>> each image. This macro-name should be chosen to indicate the contents
>> of the image, as it relates to the material of the book.
>> The macro is used in the body of the book manuscript, and expands to
>> a command to place the image.
>> For example, in my case I had macros such as:
>>
>> \def\DiophantusScan{\leavevmode
>> \hbox{\scaledEPSF 20.41pc by 32.79pc (Bachet.ps scaled 1200)}}
>> \def\AnnalsPageC{\leavevmode
>> \hbox{\scaledEPSF 33.21pc by 52.28pc (Deformation.ps scaled 707)}}
>> \def\Muse{\leavevmode\noindent
>> \hbox{\scaledEPSF 15.73pc by 27.44pc (Muse.ps scaled 1400)}}
>> \def\Lycee{\leavevmode\noindent
>> \hbox{\scaledEPSF 16.06pc by 21.83pc (Lycee.ps scaled 1400)}}
>>
>>
>> Now to update to TeXShop, *all* that was needed was to redefine the
>> \scaledEPSF macro used here.
>>
>> Here's the revised coding that I devised for this:
>>
>> \graphicspath{{FermatImages/}}
>> \def\pssuffix{ps}%
>> \def\epssuffix{eps}%
>> \makeatletter
>> \def\scaledEPSF #1 by #2 (#3.#4 scaled #5){\bgroup
>> \dimen0=#5pt \divide\dimen0 by 1000\relax
>> \edef\thescale{\expandafter\removePT@\the\dimen0}%
>> \def\thesuffix{#4}%
>> \ifx\thesuffix\pssuffix
>> \def\thename{#3}%
>> \else
>> \ifx\thesuffix\epssuffix
>> \def\thename{#3}%
>> \else
>> \def\thename{#3-#4}%
>> \fi\fi
>> % \typeout{ *** processing image: \thename *** }%
>> \edef\next{\egroup
>> \noexpand\includegraphics[scale=\thescale]%
>> % \noexpand\includegraphics[width=#1,height=#2,scale=\thescale]%
>> {\thename}}\next
>> }
>> \makeatother
>>
>>
>> This does a little bit of parsing on the filename, before constructing
>> an \includegraphics command that will work when processing either
>> with
>> pdfTeX or with TeX+Ghostscript mode.
>>
>> Only the scale-factor is actually needed, since the supplied width
>> and height were needed just with Textures' own picture-handling
>> methods.
>>
>>
>>
>> With all of these picture-inclusion macros collected into a single
>> \input
>> file, it was quite short work to get everything working properly in
>> TeXShop.
>>
>> Of course it wasn't quite as smooth sailing as I've indicated.
>> Some images needed to be renamed, and there were a few other edits
>> required.
>> But overall these "special cases" were small in number, and easily
>> identified.
>> There was no need to go searching through \include'd files to find
>> where
>> changes may be needed.
>>
>>
>> Your situation may not be quite so easy to handle as mine ---
>> fortunately
>> I had anticipated such a possible need years back, with the 1st
>> edition
>> of the book, so had chosen to use the individual macro-names for each
>> image.
>>
>> Even with 100+ images, the time spent collecting together the image
>> inclusion
>> commands into a single file, and assigning unique macro names, should
>> be
>> worthwhile --- especially if you anticipate further editions in years
>> to come.
>>
>> After having done this, you will be able to see what kind of things
>> need to
>> be changed, to alter the low-level image-inclusion macros. It may be
>> that
>> several macros need altered expansions, not just one (as in my case).
>>
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Ross Moore
>>
>>
>
> I have not followed this thread closely but I have used the following
> awk script (written by a former postdoc) to successfully strip
> postscript figures from postscript files. It occasionally balks and
> suffers from giving the figures the file name (including directory
> tree) of the embedded figure as included.
>
> Nonetheless, it should prove useful.
>
> Invoke at the command line via (I store it as ~/bin/extract_figures)
> "~/bin/extract_figures filename" where "filename" is the name of the
> file that has all the figures you want to extract. I always create a
> new folder for the originial file and all the separate files that are
> extracted.
>
> Just paste the lines below into a file using your favorite editor,
> make executable (chmod + x ) and off you go.
>
> Donal Day
>
> +++++++++++++++++++ cut and paste the lines below+++++++++++++++++
>
> #!/sw/bin/awk -f
>
> /^%%BeginDocument/ {
> if(current_file!="") {
> print "";
> print "Warning - possibly a plot within a plot";
> next;
> }
> current_size=0;
> current_file=$2;
> gsub("/","~",current_file);
> printf"Extracting %-50s",current_file;
> next;
> }
>
> /^%%EndDocument/ {
> close(current_file);
> current_file="";
> if(current_size<=1024) printf" Size= %4dchar\n",current_size;
> if(current_size>1024 && current_size<1048576)
> printf" Size= %5.1fK\n",current_size/1024;
> if(current_size>=1048576)
> printf" Size=%6.1fM\n",current_size/1048576;
> }
>
> current_file!="" {
> current_size+=length($0);
> print $0 > current_file;
> }
>
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