Portable imported graphics
A regular need is a document to be distributed in more than
one format: commonly both PostScript and PDF. The
following advice is based on a post by one with much experience of
dealing with the problem of dealing with EPS graphics in this
case.
- Don’t specify a driver when loading loading whichever version of
the graphics package you use. The scheme relies on the
distribution’s ability to decide which driver is going to be used:
the choice is between dvips and PDFTeX, in this case.
Be sure to exclude options
dvips
, pdftex
and
dvipdfm
(dvipdfm is not used in this scheme,
but the aspirant PDF-maker may be using it for his output,
before switching to the scheme).
- Use
\
includegraphics[...]{filename}
without
specifying the extension (i.e., neither .eps
nor
.pdf
).
- For every
.eps
file you will be including, produce a
.pdf
version, as described in
Graphics in PDFLaTeX. Having
done this, you will have two copies of each graphic (a .eps
and a .pdf
file) in your directory.
- Use PDFLaTeX (rather than
LaTeX–dvips–distillation or
LaTeX–dvipdfm) to produce your PDF output.
Dvipdfm’s charms are less than attractive here: the
document itself needs to be altered from its default
(dvips) state, before dvipdfm will process it.
This question on the Web: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=graph-pspdf