Re: [protext] Questions
Dear Thomas,
Many thanks for your quick response!
Apparently, I have the version numbers 1 Beta 6.31 ('Firenze')
and MiKTeX 2.4.
You have 2.5 in your example, so I guess these are not the newest
(the www.tug.org/protext/ page from which I downloaded is not
explicit about the version numbers, it has protext.exe and
protext-2.0.exe, both with a 2007 date -- I took the protext.exe).
Contrary to what you indicate in your message below, LATEX => PS =>
PDF handles *both* eps and jpg!
This is what I need most of the time, so I shall stick to it.
Sincerely,
Peter J. Huber
At 14:53 11.06.2007, Thomas Feuerstack wrote:
Peter J. Huber schrieb:
Two questions:
(1) I recently had to re-install ProTeXt (because LaTeX => PS =>
PDF no longer worked, registry problem?). How do I find out which
software versions of MiKTeX and TeXnic Center I am actually using?
Inside TeXnicCenter, open the ?(Help)-Menue and choose the entry
'Info about TeXnicCenter'. You'll find the version number at the top
of the displayed window.
MiKTeX prints out it version number in the first line of its
log-output. You should see a line like
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5)
While 'Version' describes the state of the used TeX-Version, the
number insides the paranthesises shows the used MiKTeX-Version.
(2) Is there any easy way (as in Word) to include different
graphics (eps, jpg, tiff, bmp) in a single document?
As Karl has mentionend in hist Mail, this depends on the
output-direction you've chosen before. If you followed the line
LaTeX -> DVI [-> PS [-> PDF]]
eps is the only graphics format, that will be accepted. Therefore it
might be better to use PDFLaTeX directly
PDFLaTeX -> PDF
which accepts graphics in pdf, jpg and png-format (unfortunately no
eps and/or tif).
Sincerely - Thomas Feuerstack
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Re: [protext] Questions
Peter J. Huber schrieb: > Two questions: > (1) I recently had to re-install ProTeXt (because LaTeX => PS => PDF > no longer worked, registry problem?). How do I find out which > software versions of MiKTeX and TeXnic Center I am actually using? Inside TeXnicCenter, open the ?(Help)-Menue and choose the entry 'Info about TeXnicCenter'. You'll find the version number at the top of the displayed window. MiKTeX prints out it version number in the first line of its log-output. You should see a line like This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.30.6-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.5) While 'Version' describes the state of the used TeX-Version, the number insides the paranthesises shows the used MiKTeX-Version. > (2) Is there any easy way (as in Word) to include different graphics > (eps, jpg, tiff, bmp) in a single document? As Karl has mentionend in hist Mail, this depends on the output-direction you've chosen before. If you followed the line LaTeX -> DVI [-> PS [-> PDF]] eps is the only graphics format, that will be accepted. Therefore it might be better to use PDFLaTeX directly PDFLaTeX -> PDF which accepts graphics in pdf, jpg and png-format (unfortunately no eps and/or tif). Sincerely - Thomas Feuerstack ___ protext mailing list http://tug.org/protext/
Re: [protext] Questions
Hi Karl, Thanks! But it seems that things are highly installation dependent, and on the output options you choose. My experience was quite different from yours! Perhaps I should explain that in my old age, I had to learn TeX and LaTeX earlier this year, because equations are an absolute pain with Word (but almost everything else, for example tables, seems to be a pain in LaTeX!), and I no longer have a secretary, to whom I had been able to delegate LaTeX tasks in the past. I would like to get .pdf output, with minimal aggravation. And I'd hate to do external conversions. Here is some advice from an old fogey (I am older than Donald Knuth). In my opinion, TeX and LaTeX are more user-unfriendly than necessary. Some 30 years ago, I did some software development myself, for interactive data analysis. Very early on, I learned the hard way that it is absolutely essential to provide defaults whenever possible, and to help the user rather than to produce errors and aborts. I know that this is not easy. And I now found out to my surprise that the TeX-people are yet to learn this lesson! For example: if you include graphics, then the software should choose a sensible default location and size (typically: fit on the page), and if possible, print the bb chosen as a warning (so that one can adjust it). Here are some examples of the mess produced by my installation of TeX: With the output option LaTeX => PDF in TeXnicCenter, my installation recognizes .jpg, but refuses everything else (I tried .eps, .bmp and .tif) However, I then could get .eps to work *without* converting it to .pdf first, namely by using the output option LaTeX => PS => PDF. This works with both .eps and .jpg, but not with .bmp and .tif. But it produces only B/W output (this is a problem with the conversion of graphics to PostScript). With LaTeX => DVI output, it worked with .eps, .jpg and .bmp, but my .tif example (which works fine with Word) produced a fatal PostScript error. This variant can do color. Yours, Peter . At 00:46 11.06.2007, Karl Berry wrote: Hi Peter, I can't answer your first question, having never used miktex or texniccenter, but as for your second: (2) Is there any easy way (as in Word) to include different graphics (eps, jpg, tiff, bmp) in a single document? You can include common formats *except* eps in a pdflatex document with the normal \includegraphics (or whatever). You have to convert eps to pdf first (Word must do that for you behind the scenes). One Windows program to do that conversion is here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epspdf/ One short introductory article on graphics and TeX is here: http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb26-1/hoeppner.pdf Hope this helps, karl ___ protext mailing list http://tug.org/protext/
Re: [protext] Questions
Hi Peter, I can't answer your first question, having never used miktex or texniccenter, but as for your second: (2) Is there any easy way (as in Word) to include different graphics (eps, jpg, tiff, bmp) in a single document? You can include common formats *except* eps in a pdflatex document with the normal \includegraphics (or whatever). You have to convert eps to pdf first (Word must do that for you behind the scenes). One Windows program to do that conversion is here: http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/epspdf/ One short introductory article on graphics and TeX is here: http://tug.org/TUGboat/Articles/tb26-1/hoeppner.pdf Hope this helps, karl ___ protext mailing list http://tug.org/protext/
