Re: Q: Include graphics in Jade output?

[Tom Ivar Helbekkmo <tih@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> jadetex uses the latex graphics package to include such files, [...]

OK, but does it do it right?  (I've tried to read the JadeTeX source
to figure out what it really does, but I don't know TeX intimately
enough.)  My problem is that EPS files don't seem to be treated right.

If I say (with DocBook and Norm Walsh's style sheets):

<Graphic FileRef="clientserver.eps" Format="EPS"></Graphic>

...then the entire EPS file gets inserted into the Postscript output
at this point, with all the structured comments.  This looks great in
Ghostview (with Ghostscript, that is), but our Lexmark printers abort
with an error message after drawing the graphic, but before continuing
to draw the text following it (a stack underflow during an 'exch',
although I don't think that's particularly relevant: the structured
comments are what's doing it, because manually removing those (or,
better, leaving just the "%%BoundingBox:" one in the EPS file for TeX
to read) will cause it to work just fine).

Is it the Lexmark Postscript interpreter that's buggy?  This would not
really surprise me: we've seen several other bugs in the damn things.

This is with JadeTeX 1.05, Jade 1.1.1 plus the June and August sets of
JadeTeX patches, Norman Walsh's style sheets version 1.10, the
graphics package as of 1997/12/01, LaTeX2e 1997/12/01 patch level 2,
and a recent web2c-based TeX installation, using dvips to generate the
Postscript output.

-tih
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