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Anders Lindén <[log in to unmask]>
Sun, 22 Sep 2002 19:48:06 -0700
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The idea is to get rid of the need of conversion programs.
All I want to do is to

\includegraphics{foo.jpg}

or

\includegraphics{foo.gif}

or

\includegraphics{foo.png}

(The last is actually possible to do with pdflatex).

I dont want to be dependent on a number of external conversion utilities.

/A


----- Original Message -----
From: "Heiko Oberdiek" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, September 22, 2002 10:47 AM
Subject: Re: proposal [graphics]


> On Sun, Sep 22, 2002 at 10:50:51AM +0100, Robin Fairbairns wrote:
>
> > > I am still new to LaTeX, but I cant resist on giving a proposal for a
LaTeX
> > > improvement.
> > >
> > > I think that any of the 20 most common graphics formats shall be
> > > include:able using \includegraphics.
> > >
> > > Bitmap as well as vector.
> > > Using latex as well as using pdflatex.
> >
> > the problem is, that to first order, this is nothing to do with latex
> > itself.
>
> At least it has to do with the interface to LaTeX's graphicx
> package.
>
> > latex needs to know the dimensions of the graphic, only.
>
> There are a lot of "graphics" formats (eg. PDF, PS, ...)
> that contain several "pages", so the graphicx package needs
> to know the number of pages, too.
>
> > the rest is
> > down to the dvi->whatever converter (in the case of latex) or to
> > pdftex itself (in the case of pdflatex).
>
> * dvi->whatever, pdfTeX, VTeX, ... use its own methods.
>   pdfTeX, VTeX can provide bounding box informations back
>   to TeX, but this is not possible with dvi->whatever.
>   Perhaps a program by \immediate\write18 can help to
>   provide the information in this case.
> * Some TeX implementations provide \immediate\write18,
>   so a conversion program could be called by the
>   graphicx package to get informations and the
>   understandable format of the graphics for the given driver.
> * Plugin/Library method:
>   * Interface for inclusion in TeX, pdfTeX, ... for
>     extracting informations to LaTeX's graphicx package.
>   * Interface for inclusion in dvi->whatever, pdfTeX, ...
>     for reading the different graphics formats that are
>     then put into the output.
>
> Yours sincerely
>   Heiko <[log in to unmask]>

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