Re: [LUG] pdflatex and ps2pdf problems

[Andrew Rogers <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

kam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 09:57:58PM +0000, Andrew Rogers wrote:
> > pdflatex problem:
> > Can't get it to work with EPS figures.
>
> AFAIK pdflatex will only accept jpegs and pnp figures. The problem I think
> is that eps is  basically just raw postscript, in fact yes, I've written
> postscript code and had it incorporated in latex documents you just have
> to hack the bounding box parameters and give the file an *.eps extension.
> This is fine if you're generating postscript output, problem is the
> pdf viewer can't understand native postscript, so *.eps files which are
> just slotted into the output file can't be interpreted. You may be able
> to transform your figures from eps to jpegs with gimp or somesuch.
>
> If anyone knows another way round this problem I'd be interested to
> know.
>
> KAM
>
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With Steve Marvell's help (see earlier post to this list) I managed to
solve this problem.

Here's the relevant bits form my LaTeX source file:
\usepackage{epsfig}

\begin{figure}
  \centering
  \epsfig{file=/home/andrew/MSc/BarCode}
\end{figure}

The BarCode.eps file is an eps file with the extension .eps, in the
source file.tex no extension is required.

I just do these commands

latex file.tex
dvipdfm file.dvi

Use dvipdfm, not dvipdf, note the 'm'.

Does the trick for me.

-- 
Andrew Rogers
http://www.rogerstech.co.uk

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