From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/15107 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "George N. White III" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: eps to pdf images Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 07:45:59 -0300 Organization: Bedford Institute of Oceanography Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: <409FD5FD.8080903@gmx.de> <6.0.1.1.2.20040510221706.01d72eb8@localhost> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1084272483 15158 80.91.224.253 (11 May 2004 10:48:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 11 May 2004 10:48:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Tue May 11 12:47:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BNUnf-0002Hl-00 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 12:47:51 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C13710AF2; Tue, 11 May 2004 12:43:28 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from bionet.bio.dfo.ca (46xt.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca [142.176.61.194]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4A1610AE6 for ; Tue, 11 May 2004 12:41:54 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from montigo.bio.dfo.ca ([142.2.20.184]) by bionet.bio.dfo.ca (PMDF V5.2-32 #39490) with ESMTP id <0HXJ003JUPW9B2@bionet.bio.dfo.ca> for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Tue, 11 May 2004 07:45:45 -0300 (ADT) In-reply-to: <6.0.1.1.2.20040510221706.01d72eb8@localhost> X-X-Sender: gwhite@montigo.bio.dfo.ca Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:15107 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:15107 On Mon, 10 May 2004, Hans Hagen wrote: > 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.) PNG also has unsupported subformats. > fyi: inclusion of pdf is faster, so if you process the document often, it > makes sense to convert png to pdf And, as a general strategy, converting all images and figures to pdf (even if the format is supported by pdftex) has several advantages: 1. the inclusion of pdf requires no format conversions, so is "lossless". If you are happy with the pdf version of your image it will look the same in the document 2. there are many good tools to manipulate images and generate PDF's, but there is only one pdftex. Those other tools get the benefits of a much larger user base and competition from similar tools, so in general they are more capable and reliable than pdftex. In particular, many packages (OpenOffice.org, Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop) can now export directly to PDF, thus avoiding many conversion steps. 3. those tools offer more control (resampling, color adjustment) than you can get using pdftex, and you can use different settings for each image rather than rely on some global "default" setting. -- George N. White III Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia, Canada