Strategies for including graphics in LaTeX documents

Dr. Klaus Höppner

Including external graphics in LaTeX documents is an often needed task. Though there is a standard interface for graphics inclusion since the invention of LaTeX2e, it often causes questions from users because

• the supported graphics formats depend on the backend and
• the selection of the right format depends on the graphic's type.

This talk will

• give an overview of graphics formats (vector drawings, bitmaps with or without compression), their advantages and disadvantages,
• introduce LaTeX's standard graphics package,
• present the supported formats for different backends (pdflatex and latex with dvips backend),
• give a short overview of some conversion tools,
• show some supporting packages.