[pdftex] LaTex/ PDF query: recommended method?

[John Culleton]

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 02:32, Sam McClatchie wrote:
> System info:
> Linux slackware (work) and Mandrake 9.0 (home)
> Emacs 21.2.1
>
> -------------------
> Hello
>
> I'm looking for some advice on what is the best way to convert LaTex
> documents with lots of graphics and a bit of math into pdf. I've
> found several different ways but have not settled on a best option.
>
> At present I am using the hyperref package with pdfimage and
> pdflatex. I'm using these options with the Elsevier journal template
> <http://www.elsevier.nl/homepage/about/ita/styles/elsart.cls> for
> manuscripts and have no idea how or whether it interacts or affects
> any dependencies.
>
> so my document looks like this:
>
> \pdfoutput=1
>
> \documentclass{elsart}
> \usepackage{times}
> %\usepackage[pdftex, colorlinks, bookmarks, a4paper]{hyperref} %
> needs to % be the last package loaded
> \usepackage[colorlinks, bookmarks, a4paper]{hyperref} % needs to
> 				% be the last package loaded
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \begin{frontmatter}
> Draft in progess - do not cite or distribute
>
> \title{Fat fish on the Mernoo: relating the distribution of hoki,
> \textit{Macruronus novaezelandiae} to their food supply}
>
> \author{S. McClatchie and M. Pinkerton}
> \address{National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd, PO
> Box 14901, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand}
>
>
> \begin{abstract}
> \end{abstract}
>
> \begin {keyword}
> acoustic \sep banks \sep front \sep nekton \sep prey \sep fish \sep
> New Zealand
> \end {keyword}
>
> \end{frontmatter}
>
>
>
> and figures are inserted as pdf files:
>
> \begin{figure}
> \centering
> \pdfimage width 12cm {./gmt_chatham_rise/map.pdf}
> \caption{\label{map} Upper panel panel shows study area in relation
> to New Zealand. Middle panel shows the Chatham Rise with the acoustic
> transects used to estimate mesopelagic fish distributions. Lower
> panel shows the locations of the bottom trawl stations.  }
> \end{figure}
>
> This seems to work well most of the time, but occassionally I get
> really odd behaviour in the latex document for a figure that looks
> fine as a ps, eps or pdf format on its own (viewed with gs or
> acroread). There is no difference in the fonts (the figures were all
> created as ps from Generic Mapping Tool, then converted to eps with
> ps2epsi then converted to pdf with convert *.epsi *.pdf). Other
> figures produced the same way look fine in the Latex document.
>
> Very strange! Any advice?
>
> Sam

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