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<h3>Imported graphics in PDFLaTeX</h3>
<p/>PDFTeX itself has a rather wide range of formats that it can
-&ldquo;natively&rdquo; incorporate into its output PDF stream:
+&#8220;natively&#8221; incorporate into its output PDF stream:
JPEG (<code>.jpg</code> files) for photographs and similar images,
PNG files for artificial bitmap images, and PDF for
vector drawings. Old versions of PDFTeX (prior to version 1.10a)
supported TIFF (<code>.tif</code> files) format as an alternative
-to PNG files; don&rsquo;t rely on this facility, even if you
-<em>are</em> running an old enough version of PDFTeX&hellip;
-<p/>In addition to the &lsquo;native&rsquo; formats, the standard PDFLaTeX
-<i>graphics</i> package setup causes Hans Hagen&rsquo;s <i>supp-pdf</i>
+to PNG files; don&#8217;t rely on this facility, even if you
+<em>are</em> running an old enough version of PDFTeX&#8230;
+<p/>In addition to the &#8216;native&#8217; formats, the standard PDFLaTeX
+<i>graphics</i> package setup causes Hans Hagen&#8217;s <i>supp-pdf</i>
macros to be loaded: these macros are capable of translating the
-output of MetaPost to PDF &ldquo;on the fly&rdquo;; thus MetaPost output
+output of MetaPost to PDF &#8220;on the fly&#8221;; thus MetaPost output
(<code>.mps</code> files) may also be included in PDFLaTeX documents.
<p/>The commonest problem users encounter, when switching from TeX, is
that there is no straightforward way to include EPS files:
-since PDFTeX is its own &ldquo;driver&rdquo;, and since it contains no means
-of converting PostScript to PDF, there&rsquo;s no direct way the job can
+since PDFTeX is its own &#8220;driver&#8221;, and since it contains no means
+of converting PostScript to PDF, there&#8217;s no direct way the job can
be done.
<p/>The simple solution is to convert the EPS to an appropriate
-PDF file. The <i>epstopdf</i> program will do this: it&rsquo;s
+PDF file. The <i>epstopdf</i> program will do this: it&#8217;s
available either as a Windows executable or as a <i>Perl</i>
script to run on Unix and other similar systems. A LaTeX package,
<i>epstopdf</i>, can be used to generate the requisite PDF
-files &ldquo;on the fly&rdquo;; this is convenient, but requires that you
-suppress one of TeX&rsquo;s security checks: don&rsquo;t allow its use in files
-from sources you don&rsquo;t entirely trust.
-<p/>A similar package, <i>pst-pdf</i>, permits other things than &lsquo;mere&rsquo;
+files &#8220;on the fly&#8221;; this is convenient, but requires that you
+suppress one of TeX&#8217;s security checks: don&#8217;t allow its use in files
+from sources you don&#8217;t entirely trust.
+<p/>A similar package, <i>pst-pdf</i>, permits other things than &#8216;mere&#8217;
graphics files in its argument. <i>Pst-pdf</i> operates (the
-authors suggest) &ldquo;like BibTeX&rdquo; &mdash; you process your file using
+authors suggest) &#8220;like BibTeX&#8221; &#8212; you process your file using
PDFLaTeX, then use LaTeX, <i>dvips</i> and <i>ps2pdf</i>
in succession, to produce a secondary file to input to your next
PDFLaTeX run. (Scripts are provided to ease the production of the
@@ -38,17 +38,17 @@ secondary file.)
<p/>An alternative solution is to use <i>purifyeps</i>, a
<i>Perl</i> script which uses the good offices of
<i>pstoedit</i> and of MetaPost to convert your Encapsulated PostScript to
-&ldquo;Encapsulated PostScript that comes out of MetaPost&rdquo;, and can therefore be
-included directly. Sadly, <i>purifyeps</i> doesn&rsquo;t work for all
+&#8220;Encapsulated PostScript that comes out of MetaPost&#8221;, and can therefore be
+included directly. Sadly, <i>purifyeps</i> doesn&#8217;t work for all
<code>.eps</code> files.
-<p/>Good coverage of the problem is to be found in Herbert Voss&rsquo;
+<p/>Good coverage of the problem is to be found in Herbert Voss&#8217;
<a href="http://pstricks.tug.org/main.cgi?file=pdf/pdfoutput">PDF support page</a>,
which is targeted at the use of <i>pstricks</i> in
PDFLaTeX, and also covers the <i>pstricks</i>-specific package
<i>pdftricks</i>.
<dl>
<dt><tt><i>epstopdf</i></tt><dd>Browse <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/support/epstopdf/">support/epstopdf/</a>
-<dt><tt><i>epstopdf.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed with Heiko Oberdiek&rsquo;s packages
+<dt><tt><i>epstopdf.sty</i></tt><dd>Distributed with Heiko Oberdiek&#8217;s packages
<a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek.zip">macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>pdftricks.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdftricks.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pdftricks</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pdftricks/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>pst-pdf.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf.zip">macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/pst-pdf/">browse the directory</a>)