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Re: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument
- To: sharpe at ns dot aus dot com
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument
- From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>
- Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 09:22:18 +0100
- Cc: dyork at e-smith dot com, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- References: <"from sharpe"@ns.aus.com><3.0.6.32.20010411064150.00e3f4d0@10.0.2.1>
Richard Sharpe writes:
> >I don't know... sgml2x *calls* pdfjadetex! And it works fine with
> >EPS files... in fact, I've always thought pdfjadetex worked fine with
> >EPS so I have been extremely surprised to see the recent suggestions
> >to NOT use EPS files. Have you tried it and had it fail?
>
> Oh yes, it fails with a message about LaTeX not understanding eps ...
pdfTeX does not, probably never will, understand EPS files. there is
no Postscript interpreter to do the work. I suspect the script
quietly convertts EPS to PDF on the fly
Sebastian
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