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Re: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument
- To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument
- From: Dan York <dyork at e-smith dot com>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 08:26:58 -0400
- Cc: sharpe at ns dot aus dot com, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
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Sebastian,
It seems, from Richard's other comments, that I was mistaken about
sgml2x calling pdfjadetex. Apologies for asserting that it did so
without really examining the code.
Dan
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:22:18AM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Richard Sharpe writes:
> > >I don't know... sgml2x *calls* pdfjadetex! And it works fine with
> > >EPS files... in fact, I've always thought pdfjadetex worked fine with
> > >EPS so I have been extremely surprised to see the recent suggestions
> > >to NOT use EPS files. Have you tried it and had it fail?
> >
> > Oh yes, it fails with a message about LaTeX not understanding eps ...
>
> pdfTeX does not, probably never will, understand EPS files. there is
> no Postscript interpreter to do the work. I suspect the script
> quietly convertts EPS to PDF on the fly
>
> Sebastian
>
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