Ok, usetex is going to do postscript processing in the user's current 
directory, but only on windows. On other platforms, the work is done in a 
temp directory. I've tested my changes on linux and windows, and committed 
them to svn as of 2528. Feedback appreciated.

Darren


On Tuesday 27 June 2006 09:56, Darren Dale wrote:
> On Tuesday 27 June 2006 09:14, Jouni K Seppanen wrote:
> > Darren Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > The problem is that on windows, the TEMP environment variable is
> > > something like 'C:\\Documents and Settings\\Darren\\Local
> > > Settings\\Temp' or 'C:\\DOCUME~1\\Darren\\LOCALS~1\\TEMP', and
> > > \includegraphics is not able to deal with filenames that have spaces
> > > or tildes (this has been declared a feature, not a bug).
> >
> > I don't have a Windows system to test on, but on a Mac the following
> > trick seems to deal with the tildes:
> >
> >     \documentclass{article}
> >     \usepackage{graphicx}
> >     \catcode`\~11
> >     \graphicspath{{/tmp/foo~bar/}}
> >     \catcode`\~13
> >     \begin{document}
> >     \includegraphics{stuff.pdf}
> >     \end{document}
> >
> > If I put stuff.pdf in /tmp/foo~bar, pdflatex (from TeX Live) finds it
> > just fine. Handling spaces seem to be a more difficult problem...
>
> Thanks Jouni, that was a creative suggestion. Unfortunately it doesn't work
> on my windows laptop because dvips doesnt find the embedded file unless I
> either run dvips in the directory containing the file to embed or I pass an
> absolute path to includegraphics. I tried wrapping the \includegraphics
> statement with the catcode shifts you suggested, but it didnt work.
>
> Darren
>
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