Kenneth Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Here at the University of Queensland, at a rough estimate, I spend as much time > helping staff with the eps-pdf problem in graphics as with all their other > problems in LaTeX combined. > I've occasionally thought about doing something with \includegraphics after copying it to > \UQincludegraphics, but that would make most files using it not usable > outside UQ. a modified graphics package (however modified) doesn't solve the portability problem -- old versions of packages remain on people's machines for a very long time indeed. (i've got tetex 1, 2 and 3 on this machine, but then i'm that sort of person...) if _you_ have the up-to-date package (which works with the latest pdftex with the whizzy "selective" \write18) your document isn't going to work any better on my old machine than would a document using \UQincludegraphics robin