On Thursday 12 June 2003 7:00 am, Martin Vermeer wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:04:41AM +0200, Andre Poenitz spake thusly:
> > Incidently, concerning .fig -> .pdf. Konni said she always uses separate
> > ps/tex export in that case and uses ps2pdf to convert the ps part only.
>
> Yes, that's what I find works the best too. Though I currently use
> separate ps/tex only sparingly; too cumbersome. That *will* change with
> the new externalinset ;-)
Shrug. It has already. Latex files for both ps and pdf export will in future
contain a single line
\include{your_xfig_output.pstex_t}
or
\include{your_xfig_output.pdftex_t}
This output file will itself contain
\includegraphics{your_xfig_output}
together with any latex text. Works a treat.
The two scripts that do the magic are fig2pstex.sh and fig2pdftex.sh, to be
found in lib/scripts. The former generates an eps file of the image (no
special text). The latter should generate a pdf file of the same but
currently creates a png file instead.
fig2pstex.sh is simple and "finished".
fig2pdftex.sh is more complex and still a work-in-progress. It attempts to
support both "modern" versions of xfig that support the pdftex and pdftex_t
targets and "older" versions which do not.
In this latter case, the script generates pstex and pstex_t output and then
converts the image to png using gs. I tried to generate a pdf image rather
than a png one but failed :-(
The function that uses "modern" xfig pdftex, pdftex_t targets is currently
disabled because I find that the pdftex image is rotated by 90degrees. I have
no idea why...
If anyone uses these targets successfully, perhaps they'd have a look...
> > Andre'
> Martin
Angus
