Jose' Matos wrote: > On Monday 29 December 2003 14:50, Angus Leeming wrote: >> José, just before Christmas you asked why we always copied external >> files (graphics, xfig, gnuplot etc) to the tmp directory even when >> no modifications were needed. >> >> I've just remembered an additional reason: LaTeX can't cope with >> spaces in the path. When we copy the file to the temp directory we >> rename it in a LaTeX-friendly fashion. > > The other reason I got looking to the code is to help the > detection of any > change in the input (original) file. > > But in any case you don't need to convert from the file in the > temporary directory that could be done from the original file. > > I am testing the following without any problem:
Does it work with compressed postscript files? -- Angus
