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diff --git a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-repeatgrf.html b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-repeatgrf.html index 804ade5cd7e..8689aa5a640 100644 --- a/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-repeatgrf.html +++ b/Master/texmf-doc/doc/english/FAQ-en/html/FAQ-repeatgrf.html @@ -2,27 +2,27 @@ <title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label repeatgrf</title> </head><body> <h3>Repeated graphics in a document</h3> -<p>A logo or “watermark” image, or any other image that is repeated in +<p/>A logo or “watermark” image, or any other image that is repeated in your document, has the potential to make the processed version of the document unmanageably large. The problem is, that the default mechanisms of graphics usage add the image at every point it’s to be used, and when processed, the image appears in the output file at each such point. -<p>Huge PostScript files are embarrassing; explaining <em>why</em> such a file +<p/>Huge PostScript files are embarrassing; explaining <em>why</em> such a file is huge, is more embarrassing still. -<p>The <a href="FAQ-tutbitslatex.html"><i>epslatex</i> graphics tutorial</a> +<p/>The <a href="FAQ-tutbitslatex.html"><i>epslatex</i> graphics tutorial</a> describes a technique for avoiding the problem: basically, one converts the image that’s to be repeated into a PostScript subroutine, and load that as a <i>dvips</i> prologue file. In place of the image, you load a file (with the same bounding box as the image) containing no more than an invocation of the subroutine defined in the prologue. -<p>The <i>epslatex</i> technique is tricky, but does the job. Trickier +<p/>The <i>epslatex</i> technique is tricky, but does the job. Trickier still is the neat scheme of converting the figure to a one-character Adobe Type 3 outline font. While this technique is for the “real experts” only (the author of this answer has never even tried it), it has potential for the same sort of space saving as the <i>epslatex</i> technique, with greater flexibility in actual use. -<p>More practical is Hendri Adriaens’ <i>graphicx-psmin</i>; you load +<p/>More practical is Hendri Adriaens’ <i>graphicx-psmin</i>; you load this <em>in place</em> of <i>graphicx</i>, so rather than: <blockquote> <pre> @@ -44,14 +44,14 @@ and at the start of your document, you write: and each of the graphics in the list is converted to an “object” for use within the resulting PostScript output. (This is, in essence, an automated version of the <i>epslatex</i> technique described above.) -<p>Having loaded the package as above, whenever you use +<p/>Having loaded the package as above, whenever you use <code>\</code><code>includegraphics</code>, the command checks if the file you’ve asked for is one of the graphics in <code>\</code><code>loadgraphics</code>’ list. If so, the operation is converted into a call to the “object” rather than a new copy of the file; the resulting PostScript can of course be <em>much</em> smaller. -<p>Note that the package requires a recent <i>dvips</i>, version +<p/>Note that the package requires a recent <i>dvips</i>, version 5.95b (this version isn’t — yet — widely distributed). -<p>If your PostScript is destined for conversion to PDF, either by a +<p/>If your PostScript is destined for conversion to PDF, either by a <i>ghostscript</i>-based mechanism such as <i>ps2pdf</i> or by (for example) <i>Acrobat</i> <i>Distiller</i>, the issue isn’t so pressing, since the distillation mechanism will amalgamate graphics @@ -61,5 +61,5 @@ into references to graphics objects. <dl> <dt><tt><i>graphicx-psmin.sty</i></tt><dd><a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/graphicx-psmin.zip">macros/latex/contrib/graphicx-psmin</a> (<a href="ftp://cam.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/graphicx-psmin.tar.gz">gzipped tar</a>, <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/graphicx-psmin/">browse</a>) </dl> -<p><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=repeatgrf">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=repeatgrf</a> +<p/><p>This question on the Web: <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=repeatgrf">http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=repeatgrf</a> </body> |