Bill Bennett wrote: > I have a LaTeX programme that uses a lot of .eps files. > So many that I keep them gzipped in a separate directory. > I've seen somewhere (now forgotten) of a command that says, in > essence, > > "go to the .eps directory > gunzip filename.eps > use the unzipped file in the epsfig command in the LaTeX programme > gzip filename.eps" > > Please excuse the primitive explanation. Does anyone know of this > command?
LATEX@dd: Hints http://www.dd.chalmers.se/latex/tips_e.html It's the first hint. I have copied it here: > Using compressed eps figures in a document > If you have a large picture that takes up a lot of space on your account, > you can compress it using gzip and then include it in your document. > If you have a picture called pic.eps, you do like this: > Copy the row in pic.eps that begins with %%BoundingBox to a new file > called pic.eps.bb. Then compess the picture using the gzip command: > gzip pic.eps > Include the picture in your LATEX document like this: > > \begin{figure}[!ht] > \centering > \includegraphics[width=10cm]{pic.eps.gz} > \caption{A compressed picture.} > \end{figure} Best wishes Mike -- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Lake University of Technology, Sydney Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Ph: 02 9514 1724 Fx: 02 9514 1628 Linux enthusiast, active caver and interested in anything technical. -------------------------------------------------------------------- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
