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Re: Re: DOCBOOK: Efficiently including images in DocBook
- To: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Efficiently including images in DocBook
- From: Nik Clayton <nik at nothing-going-on dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2000 18:28:02 +0100
- Cc: nik at nothing-going-on dot demon dot co dot uk, ndw at nwalsh dot com,docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
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On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 08:57:10PM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Nik Clayton writes:
> > > So that the TeX version will prefer PNG over EPS.
> >
> > How will that work?
> >
> > When I'm using the TeX backend to product postscript then I want it to
> > use EPS. When I'm using the TeX backend to produce PDF then I want it
> > to use the PNG.
>
> if you took a pace back, and let TeX handle it, you'd be better
> off. Get TeX mode to *omit the suffix entirely* in the output, and
> then the version of TeX (TeX or pdftex) can work out which file to
> include. So write out a request for file "foo", and pdftex will choose
> foo.pdf, and normal TeX will choose foo.eps
How does that help when I want pdftex to choose foo.png?
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