On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 2:56 PM Qian Yun <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 5/7/24 21:45, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> > On Tue, May 7, 2024 at 12:51 PM Qian Yun <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >> Some decisions need to be made in order to build book with pdflatex.
> >>
> >> 1. src/doc/ps/ images.
> >>
> >> These are hyperdoc images. They are in ps format, but actually are
> >> bitmap images. pdflatex can't handle ps format directly, so I
> >> suggest to convert them into png format.
> >
> > pdflatex/xelatex/lualatex can handle eps images just fine.
> > You can first run ps2eps on the ps files.
> >
> > E.g. I can take knot3.ps - one of the files, (which is not bitmap, but
> > a proper postscript) run
> >
> > ps2pdf knot3.ps
> >
> > producing knot3.eps, move knot3.ps out of the way, and then
>
> You used both eps and pdf. I think you meant pdf here?
sorry, typo, I meant
ps2eps knot3.ps
>
> knot3.ps (and a few other vector images) will be removed very soon,
> because we'll be able to generate them during build. And yes,
> to build with pdflatex, those ps images will be converted to pdf
> format by epstopdf.
as I said, it's not needed. (eps is smaller than pdf)
>
> The rest ps images are all bitmaps.
>
> > \documentclass{article}
> > \usepackage{graphics}
> > \begin{document}
> > \includegraphics{knot3}
> > \end{document}
> >
> > works just fine.
> > Or, perhaps, you prefer xelatex, then you'd need
> > \usepackage[xetex]{graphics}
> >
> > Dutto for lualatex, you'd use
> > \usepackage[luatex]{graphics}
> >
> > IMHO one should not use pdflatex, which is obsolete, but switch to
> > lualatex or xelatex.
> >
> > Dima
> >
>
> I think it'll be easy to support pdflatex/lualatex/xelatex all
> at current stage, because there's no breaking features that
> are used in tex source files, for example unicode support.
>
> - Qian
>
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