[OS X TeX] Mac OS X Question

[Louis S VanSlyck]

  Bruno,

Thanks{ \times 10^3 }

Your suggestion:
> \input graphicx
> \includegraphics[scale=0.15]{Logo}
works in plainTex just great. I don't know why "scale" is needed 
vis-a-vis the traditional "scaled", but I can live with that.

To respond to all those who wonder why I use plainTeX rather than 
LaTeX: I haven't used LaTeX since I retired in 1994 when I used it on a 
VAX mainframe. For the past twelve years, up through the OS 9 
generation---to early this year, I used plainTeX with the Textures 
engine. (Bluesky hopes to issue an OS X version of Textures soon, see 
www.bluesky.com/news/220a.html). I suppose LaTeX has evolved, but with 
plainTeX conveniently doing everything I wanted, there was no reason to 
change.

The forced conversion to OS X made me switch to TeXShop, join TUG, 
purchase OzTeX, and struggle with Fonts, Color, Graphics, etc., as well 
as try to understand the general goal of TeX developers. These were all 
non-existent issues with the user friendly Textures. I'm afraid to 
think of my next computer upgrade and the likely problems of getting 
TeX working again.
In the early 1980's I could translate hexadecimal to assembler and 
fortran almost on the fly. However, I know almost nothing of unix, c++, 
etc.

btw: The TeXShop editor is great and Bluesky is planning to make it 
available for the new release of Textures.

Lou

ps: If your ambidextrous you can do things with either hand. But, if 
you are really-really ambidextrous, you can wash one hand while you 
clap with the other.

Lou

On Nov 9, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 7 nov. 06 à 15:58, Louis S VanSlyck a écrit :
>
>> When typesetting in XeTeX, using TeXshop on a Mac G4, running OS X 
>> 10.3.9,
>> the following command will paste a pdf graphic:
>>
>> \XeTeXpicfile "Logo.PDF"  scaled 150
>>
>> Is there a neat way to do this using plainTeX?
>
> Le 7 nov. 06 à 23:45, Louis S VanSlyck a écrit :
>
>> I googled  "graphics plain tex", but the explanation is too anemic 
>> for me. I thought the syntax would be like:
>>
>> \input color
>>
>> {\color{red} This prints red.}    % This works fine.
>>
>> which suggests (to me) that one should write:
>>
>> \input picture
>>
>> {\picture{Logo.pdf}}
>>
>> to place the graphic named "Logo.pdf".    % But that fails.
>
> Coming late in the game (I was away):
>
> First, in order to be able to include PDF graphics, you need to use 
> the pdfTeX mode of TeXShop, as opposed to "TeX and Ghostscript".
>
> Then, with pdfTeX you have two ways to include the graphics:
>
> - Use, as others have already mentioned, the plain TeX wrapper 
> graphicx.tex for the LaTeX graphics package. This wrapper is located 
> in teTeX at:
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/plain/graphics/
>
> and in TeXLive at:
>
> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/doc/plain/plgraph/
> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/tex/plain/plgraph/
>
> The syntax of the LaTeX graphics package is described for teTeX in:
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/latex/graphics/grfguide.ps
>
> For TeXLive the same doc must be somewhere, but I can't find it right 
> now.
>
> For your specific need, you could try:
>
> \input graphicx
> \includegraphics[scale=0.15]{Logo}
>
> - Second solution is to use directly the pdfTeX graphics inclusion 
> primitives, as described in the pdfTeX doc, for teTeX in section 7.6 
> of:
>
> /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/doc/pdftex/manual/pdftex-a.pdf
>
> and for TeXLive in section 7.7 of:
>
> /usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.texlive/doc/pdftex/manual/pdftex-a.pdf
>
> Beware: that's not for the faint of heart! In your case, it should be 
> something like:
>
> \newbox\logobox
> \newdimen\logoheight
> \setbox\logobox=\hbox{\pdfximage{Logo.pdf}\pdfrefximage\pdflastximage}
> \logoheight=\ht\logobox
> %\divide\logoheight by\mag % depending on your needs
> \multiply\logoheight by150
> \setbox\logobox=\hbox{\pdfximage 
> height\logoheight{LogoLegiPantone.pdf}%
>   \pdfrefximage\pdflastximage}
> \copy\logobox
>
> Hope this helps,
>
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