Simon Dreher <[email protected]> wrote: > Don Simons schrieb: > > Shamed by Luigi's having revised his tutorial, I'm working on revising the > > PMX manual, which hasn't been touched since February 2004. In light of > > recent posting to this list, I'd like to know the easiest way to create > > graphic versions of email addresses in a LaTeX document. I'm working in > > Windows XP; I have MiKTeX, Gsview32, LViewpro, and of course Paint. I tried > > and succeeded in making and embedding an eps, but that turns out to retain > > the character information. > If you have these eps (for example created with (La)TeX), you can > convert/export it with gsview to a pixel graphics format like .png or > .tif (I would not use .jpg because they have compession artefacts on the > white background). In a next step you can convert them back to eps, for > example with the command line tool bmeps which should come with MikTeX > (so you can at least install it with the MikTeX package manager), with > "convert" of the imagemagick tool (a swiss army knife for image > manipulation via command line), or gimp, which is a wonderful graphics > manipulation program (you can get all of these programs for free). With > these steps you get a .eps bitmap image without any character > information for inclusion in LaTeX. > > > I've created .jpg and .bmp graphics using Paint > > or Lviewpro, then tried to insert them into the LaTeX file with e.g. > > \includegraphics{dsimonsemail.bmp}, but LaTeX complains that it doesn't know > > the size of the graphic and needs a bounding box. > The problem here ist that "normal" LaTeX can only handle eps images. > However, with pdfLaTeX you can include png or jpg pictures (and of > course pdf files), but here you get problems with (e)ps pictures or > commands, as they are necessary for example for ps-slurs. > There exist several workarounds for using (e)ps with pdfLaTeX, but they > are non-trivial. > > Hope this helps, > Simon
How about jpeg2ps? it produces "bitmapped-eps." note: the filename string seems to be contained into eps. so the filename should be a meaningless string, such as foobar.eps. Best regards, ---- Hiroaki MORIMOTO <[email protected]> Tokyo, Japan _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list If you want to unsubscribe or look at the archives, go to http://mailman.nfit.au.dk/mailman/listinfo/icking-music-archive.org-tex-music
