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| author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2005-12-29 00:31:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2005-12-29 00:31:48 +0000 |
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvipdfmgraphics.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvipdfmgraphics.html new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..719736004a7 --- /dev/null +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvipdfmgraphics.html @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +<head> +<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label dvipdfmgraphics</title> +</head><body> +<h3>Imported graphics in <i>dvipdfm</i></h3> +<p><i>Dvipdfm</i> translates direct from DVI to PDF +(all other available routes produce PostScript output using +<i>dvips</i> and then convert that to PDF with +<i>ghostscript</i> or <i>Acrobat</i> <i>Distiller</i>). +<p><i>Dvipdfm</i> is a particularly flexible application. It will +permit the inclusion of bitmap and PDF graphics, as does +<a href="FAQ-pdftexgraphics.html">PDFTeX</a>, but is also capable of employing +<i>ghostscript</i> "on the fly" so as to be able to permit the +inclusion of encapsulated PostScript (<code>.eps</code>) files by translating +them to PDF. In this way, <i>dvipdfm</i> combines the good +qualities of <i>dvips</i> and of PDFTeX as a means of +processing illustrated documents. +<p>Unfortunately, "ordinary" LaTeX can't deduce the bounding box of +a binary bitmap file (such as JPEG or PNG), so you have +to specify the bounding box. This may be done explicitly, in the +document: +<blockquote> +<pre> +\usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphicx} +... +\includegraphics[bb=0 0 540 405]{photo.jpg} +</pre> +</blockquote> +It's usually not obvious what values to give the "<code>bb</code>" key, +but the program <i>ebb</i> will generate a file +containing the information; the above numbers came from an +<i>ebb</i> output file <i>photo.bb</i>: +<blockquote> +<pre> +%%Title: /home/gsm10/photo.jpg +%%Creator: ebb Version 0.5.2 +%%BoundingBox: 0 0 540 405 +%%CreationDate: Mon Mar 8 15:17:47 2004 +</pre> +</blockquote> +However, if such a file is available, you may abbreviate the inclusion +code, above, to read: +<blockquote> +<pre> +\usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphicx} +... +\includegraphics{photo} +</pre> +</blockquote> +which makes the operation feel as simple as does including +<code>.eps</code> images in a LaTeX file for processing with +<i>dvips</i>; the <i>graphicx</i> package knows to look for a +<code>.bb</code> file if no bounding box is provided in the +<code>\</code><code>includegraphics</code> command. +<p>The one place where usage isn't quite so simple is the need to quote +<i>dvipdfm</i> explicitly, as an option when loading the +<i>graphicx</i> package: if you are using <i>dvips</i>, you +don't ordinarily need to specify the fact, since the default graphics +configuration file (of most distributions) "guesses" the +<code>dvips</code> option if you're using TeX. +<dl> +<dt><tt><i>dvipdfm</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm.zip">dviware/dvipdfm</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm/">browse</a>) +<dt><tt><i>ebb</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm.zip">dviware/dvipdfm</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm/">browse</a>) +</dl> +<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvipdfmgraphics">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvipdfmgraphics</a> +</body> |