From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6489 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problem with mis-identified .png graphics files when generating DVI Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 15:35:37 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020108153328.04704520@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020108092150.02f15aa8@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397016 11046 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:16:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Bruce Horrocks , ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: "George N. White III" In-Reply-To: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6489 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6489 At 08:59 AM 1/8/2002 -0400, George N. White III wrote: >Support non-native graphics formats in pdftex and dvips should be viewed >with caution. It is important to note than the support in pdftex for PNG >and other image formats is incomplete, and that the most reliable >method to insert images into PDF files is to make the images into PDF >independently of pdftex. With dvips, the most reliable approach is to >convert images to EPS. Adding support for images to pdftex has resulted in >a more complex program that is less portable and less immune to side >effects (e.g., changing a .dll or .so version) from other differences >between similar systems. ah, i never knew that png support was incomplete; i knew that tiff was crappy so i don't support that The problem reported by Bruce Horrocks would not arise when using EPS with >dvips and PDF with pdftex. indeed, here we follow the same approach (today we put most graphics into figure base files which are easy to handle for pdftex) 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-pod.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------