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| author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2007-12-28 19:57:02 +0000 |
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| committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2007-12-28 19:57:02 +0000 |
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uk-tex-faq 3.17 (7nov07)
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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvipsgraphics.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvipsgraphics.html index d0295f7464f..3c0bc61364e 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvipsgraphics.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-dvipsgraphics.html @@ -2,29 +2,29 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label dvipsgraphics</title> </head><body> <h3>Imported graphics in <i>dvips</i></h3> -<p><i>Dvips</i>, as originally conceived, can only import a single +<p/><i>Dvips</i>, as originally conceived, can only import a single graphics format: <a href="FAQ-eps.html">encapsulated PostScript</a> (<code>.eps</code> files). <i>Dvips</i> also deals with the slightly eccentric EPS that is created by <a href="FAQ-MP.html">MetaPost</a>. -<p>Apart from the fact that a depressing proportion of drawing +<p/>Apart from the fact that a depressing proportion of drawing applications produce corrupt EPS when asked for such output, this is pretty satisfactory for vector graphics work. -<p>To include bitmap graphics, you need some means of converting them to +<p/>To include bitmap graphics, you need some means of converting them to PostScript; in fact many standard image manipulators (such as <i>ImageMagick</i>’s <i>convert</i>) make a good job of creating EPS files (but be sure to ask for output at PostScript level 2 or higher). (<i>Unix</i> users should beware of <i>xv</i>’s claims: it has a tendency to downsample your bitmap to your screen resolution.) -<p>Special purpose applications <i>jpeg2ps</i> (which converts +<p/>Special purpose applications <i>jpeg2ps</i> (which converts JPEG files using PostScript level 2 functionality) and <i>bmeps</i> (which converts both JPEG and PNG files), and <i>a2ping</i>/<i>sam2p</i> (which convert a bewildering array of bitmap formats to EPS or PDF files; <i>sam2p</i> is one of the engines that <i>a2ping</i> uses) are also considered “good bets”. -<p><i>Bmeps</i> comes with patches to produce your own version of +<p/><i>Bmeps</i> comes with patches to produce your own version of <i>dvips</i> that can cope with JPEG and PNG direct, using <i>bmeps</i>’s conversion library. <i>Dvips</i>, as distributed by MiKTeX, comes with those patches built-in. @@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ distributed by MiKTeX, comes with those patches built-in. <dt><tt><i>jpeg2ps</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/support/jpeg2ps.zip">nonfree/support/jpeg2ps</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/nonfree/support/jpeg2ps.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/nonfree/support/jpeg2ps/">browse</a>) <dt><tt><i>sam2p</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sam2p.zip">graphics/sam2p</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/sam2p.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/graphics/sam2p/">browse</a>) </dl> -<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvipsgraphics">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvipsgraphics</a> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvipsgraphics">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=dvipsgraphics</a> </body> |