Inclusion of Colored BMP Figures

[Oguzhan Cifdaloz]

Frank,
I've never used dvipsone as my PostScript driver, how should I do it?
Thank you very much for your help.
Oguzhan


----- Original Message -----
From: "Ganz, Frank, SV USA" <Frank.Ganz at SPRINGER-SBM.COM>
To: <YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 6:12 AM
Subject: Re: Inclusion of Colored BMP Figures


> Hi Oguzhan,
>
> You have written
>
>  \usepackage[dvipsone]{graphicx}
>
> suggesting that you are targeting dvipsone as you PostScript driver. Yet
you are not using dvipsone, but dvi2ps instead.
>
> Either use dvipsone to produce the PostScript or write
>
>  \usepackage[dvi2ps]{graphicx}
>
> Handling of graphics is always driver-dependent. I don't know, though, if
dvi2ps is an option to the graphicx package.
>
> On another note, if you are writing something to be given to a publisher,
I just want to point out that BMP is an undesired graphics interchange
format.
>
> Thanks,
> Frank
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Oguzhan Cifdaloz [mailto:Oguzhan.Cifdaloz at ASU.EDU]
> >Sent: Friday, August 13, 2004 3:01 AM
> >To: YANDYTEX at LISTS.UCC.IE
> >Subject: Inclusion of Colored BMP Figures
> >
> >
> >HI,
> >I have a little problem with including color bmp files in my
> >tex document.
> >In the dvi, the picture looks in color. I convert it to ps via dvi2ps
> >button and it appears in black and white in the ps file.(Hence, my pdf
> >includes a black and white figure.)Please include any colored bmp file
> >using my code below. I'd greatly appreciate any help on this.
> >
> >Thank you,
> >
> >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
> >\documentclass{book}
> >\usepackage[dvipsone]{graphicx}
> >
> >% ****** Definition for BMP Inclusion *****************
> >
> >\newdimen\dwidth
> >\newdimen\dheight
> >
> >\def\showbmp#1#2#3{%
> >\dwidth=3D#2\dheight=3D#3
> >\edef\width{\number\dwidth} \edef\height{\number\dheight}%
> >\special{insertimage: #1 \width \space \height}}
> >
> >\def\centerbmp#1#2#3{\vskip#2\relax\centerline{\hbox%
> >to#1{\showbmp{#3}{#1}{#2}\hfil}}}
> >% *****************************************************
> >
> >\begin{document}
> >
> >Note that the figure appears in color in the dvi.
> >\begin{figure}[h]
> > \centerbmp{1.0in}{1.0in}{figure1.bmp}
> > \caption{STEP Response}
> >\end{figure}
> >
> >\noindent Convert the dvi to ps using the dvi2ps button, and
> >distill it =
> >using Adobe
> >Distiller. The figure appears in black and white in the resulting pdf.
> >
> >\end{document}
> >
> >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
> >
>