[pdftex] Re: [tex-live] Question about importing images into TeX/LaTeX documents...

[Adrian Heathcote]

Giuseppe

The latest version of TeXShop (1.26) will do what you want.

http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/texshop.html

But of course you can only use it if you use MacOS X.

Still, there are many other good reasons to switch…

Adrian Heathcote


On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 11:22  AM, Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:

> Giuseppe Greco <giuseppe.greco at bluewin.ch> writes on
> 02 Jan 2003 23:48:26 +0100:
>
>>> the quality of the PDF output is really poor!
>
> Yes.  This is a well-known problem: for a discussion and visual
> comparison, see
>
> 	http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/fonts/outline-vs-bitmap-fonts.html
>
> The fix is fortunately easy, but depends on your local TeX DVI driver
> configuration: essentially, you need to get the DVI driver to use
> outline, rather than bitmap, fonts.
>
> On Giuseppe's problem of maintaining both .eps and .png files for use
> with TeX and PDFTeX, why not use make to keep them in sync, with the
> (presumably resolution-independent) PostScript figure file as the
> master from which the bitmap PNG file is generated.
>
> Even better, avoid using bitmap figures when better alternatives are
> available: here is an example (golfer.ps is widely available, and
> included in ghostscript distributions and installations: it is also on
> the TeXLive 7 CD as texmf/doc/latex/overpic/golfer.ps.gz):
>
> % distill golfer.ps 	# make golfer.pdf (could use ps2pdf if distill is  
> not available)
>
> % cat pdf.ltx
> \documentclass[]{article}
>
> \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> This is a PDF figure:
>
> \centerline{\includegraphics[clip=true,scale=0.1]{golfer.pdf}}
>
> \centerline{\includegraphics[clip=true,scale=0.2]{golfer.pdf}}
>
> \centerline{\includegraphics[clip=true,scale=0.4]{golfer.pdf}}
>
> \end{document}
>
> % pdflatex pdf.ltx
>
> This produces pdf.pdf with three images of increasing size, and the
> images retain their quality even under gv's maximum 64x magnification.
>
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