At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:41:14 +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > Bill Bennett wrote: > > I was going to use a .jpg file in a figure in a LaTeX document, > > on the grounds that an.eps file would be too big. > > I don't have my cp of Goosens here to look up the graphics rule but it > looks like you are wanting to use latex and generate postscript. An eps > is not necessarily too big. Both convert and jpg2eps (which might even > already be on your system as it comes with many teTeX distributions) > just encapsulates the binary jpg and it wont be much bigger at all than > the jpg. Then you wont need the graphics rule at all.
.. also if you're aiming for postscript output, the jpg will have to be converted to postscript at some point in the process. (iirc, PDF can embed a jpg directly so thats a different story) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
