From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4060 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: no tif? Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 09:31:03 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20010214093103.01bee100@server-1> References: <3.0.6.32.20010213181304.015db850@server-1> <01021315542403.00556@bilbo> <3.0.6.32.20010213181304.015db850@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394753 22512 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:39:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:39:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "Uwe Koloska" In-Reply-To: <01021401372808.00556@bilbo> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4060 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4060 At 01:37 AM 2/14/01 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote: >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?? pdftex supports jpg >And I don't have to use "texutil --figures" if I use pdftex, right? right, context will parse eps/mps anyway, and when using pdftex, not parse at all; when you have 100 Gig figures and want to run on another machine, you can generate a tuf file (texutil --fig) and move that to the other machine (did you ever try: texexec --fig --pdf fig-*.* or alike?) also, when needed context can run texutil itself (if enabled) Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------