At 08:59 AM 1/8/2002 -0400, George N. White III wrote:
>Support non-native graphics formats in pdftex and dvips should be viewed
>with caution. It is important to note than the support in pdftex for PNG
>and other image formats is incomplete, and that the most reliable
>method to insert images into PDF files is to make the images into PDF
>independently of pdftex. With dvips, the most reliable approach is to
>convert images to EPS. Adding support for images to pdftex has resulted in
>a more complex program that is less portable and less immune to side
>effects (e.g., changing a .dll or .so version) from other differences
>between similar systems.
ah, i never knew that png support was incomplete; i knew that tiff was
crappy so i don't support that
The problem reported by Bruce Horrocks would not arise when using EPS with
>dvips and PDF with pdftex.
indeed, here we follow the same approach (today we put most graphics into
figure base files which are easy to handle for pdftex)
hans
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