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<title>UK TeX FAQ -- question label dvipdfmgraphics</title>
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<h3>Imported graphics in <i>dvipdfm</i></h3>
<p/><i>Dvipdfm</i> (and <i>dvipdfmx</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>/<i>Dvipdfmx</i> are particularly flexible
applications. They permit the inclusion of bitmap and PDF
graphics, as does <a href="FAQ-pdftexgraphics.html">PDFTeX</a>, but are 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, they combine 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><p>
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><p>
If such a file is available, you may abbreviate the inclusion
code, above, to read:
<blockquote>
<pre>
\usepackage[dvipdfm]{graphicx}
...
\includegraphics{photo}
</pre>
</blockquote><p>
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="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm.zip">dviware/dvipdfm</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>dvipdfmx</i></tt><dd><a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfmx.zip">dviware/dvipdfmx</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfmx/">browse the directory</a>)
<dt><tt><i>ebb</i></tt><dd>Distributed as part of <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm.zip">dviware/dvipdfm</a> (or <a href="http://www.tex.ac.uk/www.tex.ac.uk tex-archive/dviware/dvipdfm/">browse the directory</a>)
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<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>
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