Subject: RE: problem with jadetex and pdftex (The DSSSList Digest V2 #88) From: Sebastian Rahtz <s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 16:17:50 +0100 |
> I suspect you've run into the limitations of PDFTeX in handling included > graphics. PDFTeX > deals with a much more limited set of graphic file types/formats than > you might expect if you're used to dealing with dvips. um, not true. pdftex groks 3 types of graphics, dvips groks 1.... > In particular, IIRC, it doesn't deal with > much of anything except > PNGs without some serious effort -- and I believe that includes PS based > formats such as EPS. this was true until a version released 2 or 3 months ago. As of today, pdftex reads as native the following formats PNG (most bitmap utilities can write this) JPEG PDF (as produced by Distiller or Ghostscript) there is also a test release which reads TIFF files. Note that the PDF import is *native*, not the old parsing version. So far as I know, pdftex is almost unique in its ability to deal with `encapsulated' PDF (you need to get the MediaBox set right). If you a test release of the pdftex driver for LaTeX's graphics package, multiple requests for the same graphic result in references to a single instance. The bottom line: a system built by Novare (i helped them out on the TeX side) delivers PDF files built automatically using jadetexpdf from SGML, using DSSSL (as well as HTML). Each page has a logo, which was an EPS file turned to PDF by Distiller, and include just once in the PDF file. I tell you, pdfTeX is the business.... sebastian DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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