RE: no tif?

["White, George" <WhiteG@mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

It is relatively non-informative to say "pdftex supports format XXX".  About
all
you can say is that a specific image worked with pdftex on a specific
platform.
Also, what "works" for one person may be unnacceptable to another
(e.g., color shifts).

EPS, TIF(F), and PNG, are umbrellas that cover a vast range of 
actual contents.  To use a particular format with pdftex you have to
first make sure that the support was compiled in, and then that the 
library you used is compatible with the particular file you happen to have.
With EPS you may not see the problem until you render the PS file.
The free libraries for TIFF, PNG, and JPEG have had bugs (some
provided by the system libraries they use) and often support a fraction
of the possibilities for a given format.  One many systems, ImageMagick
and gimp will use the same libraries that pdftex employs, so it can be
helpful to
a) check that you can view a troublesome image with either of those
applications
before blaming pdftex and b) try converting to another format (although each
format does have advantages for specific situations).  

There is a sample pdftex file that uses plain TeX and embeds some images.
It would be useful to expand this document by adding a larger range
of test images that people could use to verify the functionality of their
basic
pdftex installation.    

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Uwe Koloska [SMTP:uwe.koloska@mailbox.tu-dresden.de]
> Sent:	Tuesday, February 13, 2001 8:37 PM
> To:	ntg-context@ntg.nl
> Subject:	Re: no tif?
> 
> Hello,
> 
> You wrote on Dienstag, 13. Februar 2001 18:13:
> >> [tif problems with context and pdftex]
> >
> >when pdftex is used, context does not use texutil.
> >
> >tif support in pdftex is not always compiled into the binary so i
> disabled
> >it in context, also because not all tif formats are supported [actually,
> >pdf does not support tiff, but some tiff compression schemes]. Png is a
> >better format.
> 
> Ahh!  So to make it clear I changed the table from the manual:
> 
>            eps  pdf  mps  tif  png  jpg  mov
> dvips       +    -    +    -    -    -    +
> dvipsone    +    -    +    +    -    -    +
> pdftex      -    +    +    -    +    -?   +
> 
> what about jpg and pdftex??
> 
> And I don't have to use "texutil --figures" if I use pdftex, right?
> 
> Uwe
> 
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