[Insight-developers] Insight Journal Latex Style

[Joshua Cates]

Hi Jim, all,

I agree that pdflatex is a more convenient way to go.  It would be nice to keep 
the .sty file as accommodating as possible.

Josh.


Miller, James V (GE, Research) wrote:
> My latex is pretty rusty but I have some questions/suggestions on the 
> Insight Journal latex style.
> 
> Lately, I have been using pdflatex which "appears" to be the preferred 
> mechanism for generating pdfs from latex documents and getting the table 
> of contents and hyperlinks managed. 
> 
> I have been using the graphicx package with pdflatex which "natively" 
> supports including images in pdf, png, etc. formats (but not eps). Since 
> most the images I produce are in png or jpeg format, I can include my 
> images directly into pdflatex without using an external conversion tool.
> 
> The InsightJournal.sty file has a entries at the bottom of the file
> 
> \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.eps,.jpg,.gif,.tiff,.bmp,.png}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.jpg}{eps}{.jpg.bb}{`convert #1 eps:-}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.gif}{eps}{.gif.bb}{`convert #1 eps:-}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.tiff}{eps}{.tiff.bb}{`convert #1 eps:-}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.bmp}{eps}{.bmp.bb}{`convert #1 eps:-}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.png}{eps}{.png.bb}{`convert #1 eps:-}
> 
> which appear to try to perform an automated conversion of file types to 
> eps.  Having these lines in the style actually prevents me some using 
> the native capabilites to include png files, etc. So in my local copy, I 
> commented out these lines. Of course, it took me some time to figure out 
> why my images were not appearing.
> 
> Is there any reason not to endorse using pdflatex+graphicx over using 
> graphics+convert?
> 
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