[Tugindia] how to include .tif graphics ?

[David Kastrup]

Dileep Padinjarae Vengasseri <dileep_pv@yahoo.com> writes:

> Why is LaTex not supporting any graphic formats other
> than eps while pdfLatex does it?

LaTeX does not support _any_ graphic format.  Dvips does.  Dvips
could support more graphic formats if code was included into it.
However, for this to be convenient, LaTeX should know about the
dimensions of included graphics.  EPS files are ASCII readable, so
LaTeX can extract the necessary information easily.  Since EPS
wrapper procedures exist for most interesting formats (jpeg2ps,
tiff2ps and a few others), there is not much of an incentive to go
via other paths.

> Is there any way of including different graphical formats in LaTex
> without their initial conversion to eps. At some cirumstances it is
> very useful if one can directly include other graphical formats in
> the LaTex file. For example, if one want to include a scanned image
> in his tex file, most of the time there will be a loss of resolution
> on conversion of scanned images (usually jpeg or tiff) to eps.

Only of you are using the wrong programs for conversion.

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