> That's good because as far as I know compiling in dvi does not allow
> to use \includefigures using pdf files, right? So it was not an
> option!
Using latex (as opposed to pdflatex) means all of your graphics have
to be EPS files. You can use pdflatex to include PDF, PNG, JPG, or
GIF, but pdflatex will not include EPS files. A major downside of not
being able to use EPS natively is that you lose out on all of the
great features of EPS. For example, PSTricks (a LaTeX drawing package)
can do very advanced things because it leverages the power of EPS. In
particular, PSTricks can do math within graphics that lets you (for
example) solve differential equations during the compilation of your
document.
[ Personally, I hate including MATLAB figures within a nicely
formatted LaTeX document. Even though MATLAB has some crude
LaTeX/Computer-Modern-font support that you can put into figs, the
figures always make a nice document look worse. An old officemate of
mine would use the psfrag package (which also requires using EPS) to
solve this problem. MATLAB puts dummy symbols throughout the fig, and
psfrag can replace them on-the-fly with text rendered from the
document. However, the graphics themselves still lack the smooth look
that LaTeX provides. So I don't even generate figs from MATLAB; I have
MATLAB export data and use PSTricks to plot that data natively within
LaTeX. The result is a document without seems. ]
There are several packages that allow you to include pdflatex-friendly
files in latex (and probably vice versa). They essentially run a small
pass of pdflatex or a converter program to generate EPS files from the
PDF's you want to include. The packages can actually do this fairly
automatically. I take a different route because I eschew using
pdflatex. I have Makefiles that will automatically generate EPS's from
any other file type as needed (e.g., if I use \includegraphics{blah}
and there is a blah.gif in the directory, the Makefile will convert
blah.gif to blah.eps before running LaTeX). IIRC, there are similar
automatic conversion facilities built into some of the most
sophisticated LaTeX build scripts (e.g., "rubber").
Anyway, I'm glad you're both up and running. And I'm glad that now I
know about that configuration parameter -- it was something I took for
granted before you're issue was posted!
Best --
Ted
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Ted Pavlic <t...@tedpavlic.com>
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