On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 09:10:16AM +1000, Angus Lees wrote:
> At Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:41:14 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> > Bill Bennett wrote:
> > > I was going to use a .jpg file in a figure in a LaTeX document,
> > > on the grounds that an.eps file would be too big.
> >
> > I don't have my cp of Goosens here to look up the graphics rule but it
> > looks like you are wanting to use latex and generate postscript. An eps
> > is not necessarily too big. Both convert and jpg2eps (which might even
> > already be on your system as it comes with many teTeX distributions)
> > just encapsulates the binary jpg and it wont be much bigger at all than
> > the jpg. Then you wont need the graphics rule at all.
>
> . also if you're aiming for postscript output, the jpg will have to
> be converted to postscript at some point in the process.
>
> (iirc, PDF can embed a jpg directly so thats a different story)
pdflatex does this. pdflatex can't do the jpegs straight out of
my camera for some reason.
jpeg2ps (debian woody/non-free)
DESCRIPTION
jpeg2ps converts JPEG files to PostScript Level 2 or 3
EPS. In fact, jpeg2ps is not really a converter but a
"wrapper": it reads the image parameters (width, height,
number of color components) in a JPEG file, writes the
according EPS header and then copies the compressed JPEG
data to the output file. Decompression is done by the
PostScript interpreter (only PostScript Level 2 and 3
interpreters support JPEG compression and decompression).
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