Re: images in Docbook with Red Hat 6.2

[godoy at conectiva dot com dot br]

Eric Bischoff <ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr> writes:

> godoy@conectiva.com.br wrote:
> > 
> > We work this way:
> > 
> > All pictures are in TIFF format (better quality)
> > 
> > When I choose "PS" backend, the script runs something similar to
> > 
> > for i in `ls directory/images/tiff/*.tiff` ; do
> >     convert directory/images/tiff/$i directory/images/eps/`basename $i .tiff`.eps
> > done
> 
> Yes, this is a very good solution too. It only has two small
> drawback :
> - it can be slow to convert all the pictures each time you
> process the docbook
> document. But this can be avoided through a test or using
> the Makefile mechanism.

They are converted only if there's no converted file. Conversion can
be suppressed with "touch", for testing purposes... 

> - it requires disciple from your authors ;-)

Well... Everything would require that, but all this process can be
mapped to Emacs and it can asks interactively by these
parameters. VI/pico/jed/etc users can run these by hand. 


1. There's no perfect solution.
2. "Make a foul proof tool and only a foul would use it".


These two sayings are very useful guidelines when developing something
:-) 



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