[OS X TeX] Placing eps figures

[George Gratzer]

Gary,

I had to label some 12 diagrams today, and your method is really  
effective. I used eps files, so I did not have to crop, TeX Font  
Outliner.app did all the work.

Thanks,

GG

On Jun 3, 2006, at 6:18 PM, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Jun 3, 2006, at 3:23 PM, George Gratzer wrote:
>
>> What I still miss, is the saving on a typeset page in Illustrator  
>> format. There was a lot of discussion on this in this forum, but  
>> nothing quite works.
>
> We have written two AppleScripts apps (that use Ghostscript and  
> pdfcrop) that make labeling figures much like it was in the  
> Textures. The general idea is that you can create the labels in  
> a .tex file, convert the fonts in the resulting .pdf file to  
> Postscript outlines, open that .ps file in AI, and then copy and  
> post those outlines in the AI figure file. The steps are as follows:
>
> (1) Create your figure in AI and save it as "Adobe PDF (pdf)". I  
> will assume it is called "test.pdf".
>
> (2) Create the labels for your figure in a .tex file. I will assume  
> it is called "labels.tex".
>
> (3) Typeset the labels.tex file and then drop the resulting  
> labels.pdf file on "TeX Font Outliner.app"
>
> (4) After you drop the .pdf file on "TeX Font Outliner.app", the  
> resulting .ps file will automatically open in AI. Copy the labels  
> from the .ps file and place them labels in the fig you saved in  
> part (1), i.e., in test.pdf
>
> (5) Move the labels into position and save test.pdf.
>
> (6) Drop test.pdf onto "PDF Cropper.app". This will rename test.pdf  
> to test-AI.pdf (so that you will have your original file for later  
> editing) and then it will crop that file by removing all white  
> space and it will name the cropped file test.pdf.
>
> That's all there is too it. I have placed the apps at:
>
> http://www.esm.psu.edu/mac-tex/PDF-Processing-Apps.zip
>
> if you want to try them out (I have only tested this with AI CS2).  
> They are universal binary.
>
> I hope this is useful.
>
> -- Gary
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