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Re: LaTeX equation as figure in DocBook XML
- From: David Tolpin <dvd at renderx dot com>
- To: paulh at logicsquad dot net (Paul A. Hoadley)
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2003 01:08:34 +0400 (AMT)
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: LaTeX equation as figure in DocBook XML
> I want to include some equations as figures in a DocBook document.
> >From my research I gather there are several ways to solve this
> problem, but I am constrained by wanting to use XML source, then via
> XSL-FO to PDF with XEP, so this rules out any use of TeX within the
> toolchain itself.
>
> I am reasonably happy with using PNG as the image format (XEP seemed
> to _almost_ accept EPSI, but there was no output) but my initial
> experiments have produced mediocre results. I have tried:
>
Paul,
XEP supports EPS with Postscript output (and is going to support PDF embedding
with PDF output starting with the next release). You can then distill then
PS into PDF using Ghostscript.
EPS with PDF is constrained to TIFF preview.
David Tolpin
RenderX