You can use .ps images with pdflatex. see this
<https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/55427/forcing-latex-to-handle-home-made-ps-files-in-an-intelligent-way>
and note that you need the option --shell-escape
It will automatically convert .ps to pdf when running pdflatex
--Nasser
On Sunday, February 4, 2024 at 5:24:19 AM UTC-6 oldk1331 wrote:
> Fixing the various minor problems with exporting "ps" image
> might take a while.
>
> In the mean time, I'd like to discuss another aspect of
> book.pdf generation.
>
> I guess no one uses book.dvi or book.ps? Using pdflatex
> to generate pdf directly is faster and produces better result
> according to some sources.
>
> (Luatex supports unicode, but we don't require it, yet.)
>
> The problem is that pdflatex can't use ps image directly,
> but we already have awk script to do the xpm->ps conversion.
> We can do xpm->pdf (or ps->pdf when we generate ps image directly.)
> Then we use the \includegraphics command from "graphicsx"
> package to replace the out-dated "epsf" package.
>
> With minimal effort we can support pdflatex, while maintaining
> compatibility with current latex->dvips->ps2pdf process.
>
> Not a TeX expert my self, so how to define the equivalent thing
> with includegraphics?
>
> \def\epsfsize#1#2{.24\textheight}
> \let\spadepsffilesave\epsffile
> \def\epsffile[#1]#2{\begin{center}\spadepsffilesave[#1]{#2}\end{center}}
>
>
> - Qian
>
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