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Tobias wrote

>esides Hans methode (texexec --pdf --fig=c yourfile.jpg) I want to remark 
>that PDFTeX is able to include JPEG and PNG graphics directly thus you do 
>not need to convert them. Actually, Hans methode does the conversion from 
>JPEG to PDF  simply by including the JPEG in TeX. (Old versions of PDFTeX 
>also supported TIFF, but there are legions of TIFF subformats of which 
>only a fraction was supported. Consequently, TIFF had been dropped.)

fyi: inclusion of pdf is faster, so if you process the document often, it 
makes sense to convert png to pdf

Hans