On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 08:59:21AM +0000, Angus Leeming spake thusly:
> 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 :-(I use epstopdf manually (part of tetex) and works fine. It's a perl script and might give you ideas what to do. > 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... I find (xfig 3.2.3, no patchlevel) that the pdf produced is in a 'letter' page... > If anyone uses these targets successfully, perhaps they'd have a look... > > > > Andre' > > Martin > Angus > -- Martin Vermeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Helsinki University of Technology Dept. of Surveying, Inst. of Geodesy P.O. Box 1200, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland :wq
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