[pstricks] Books with pstricks and jpg pictures

[Henry Proudhon]

Rafael,

> I am working in my PhD. thesis and I used Freehand for technical 
> pictures, but since I know the use of Pstricks I would like to made my 
> pictures with it. 

Good idea ;-)

> The problem is that I have included some pictures in jpg with the 
> scanner and some photos. When I compile a document with only jpg 
> pictures I use pdflatex of Winedt, and when I use only pstricks 
> pictures I compile the document with latex compiler of winedt and 
> later dvi-ps to see beautiful pstricks pictures. So if I used pstricks 
> and jpg pictures at the same document, how can i compile it? it is 
> posible? 


I have done the same for my PhD, your options are:

    * convert the jpg to eps (the gimp does a good job for that) and 
stick to latex
    * convert your pstricks figures to pdf (which will keep the vector 
graphic format) via epstopdf and use pdflatex

The Gimp for windows: http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net/
epstopdf: 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epstopdf/?action=/tex-archive/support/

Hope this helps

-- 

Henry Proudhon
Postdoc Fellow
Materials Engineering
The University of British Columbia
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V6T-1Z4 Vancouver B.C. (Canada)