[OS X TeX] Re: Tiff files - cause problems?

[William Adams]

On Apr 22, 2009, at 1:15 PM, Itsme (Sophie) wrote:

>
> Is Tiff supposed to work with standard TexShop, or is there some add- 
> on which will make it work?
>
> I do a lot of copy/paste of screen shots and my app (Scrivener)  
> takes these in as tiff, and feeds that into the tex stream, so this  
> is messing me up quite a lot.


XeTeX w/ the xdv2pdf back-end can use .tif (since Quartz does the  
heavy-lifting), but otherwise it's best to convert the graphics to  
some other format which isn't plagued by issues like endianness &c.

William

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