[Insight-users] Re: [Insight-developers] Insight Journal Latex Style

[Hans Johnson]

Luis,

I ran across this just the other day:

http://telin.ugent.be/~slippens/drupal/?q=ifpdf

I have not tried it.

Writing a LaTeX document that you want to feed to both plain latex and 
pdflatex can be sometimes a conflicting task. If you want to embed 
graphics for example, latex needs EPS based graphics but pdflatex needs 
PDF based graphics. Other problems can occur if you want to use some PDF 
specific functionality like bookmarks and other navigational stuff. With 
the use of the package ifpdf, you can write conditional LaTeX code in 
your document.

The package defines a switch \ifpdf, which you can use as in the 
following simple example:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{ifpdf}

\begin{document}

\ifpdf
  pdflatex was here
\else
  plain latex was here
\fi

\end{document}


Hans


Luis Ibanez wrote:

>
> Hi Jim,
>
> I don't see any reason for not endorsing "pdflatex" as the preferred
> tool for generating PDF files for the Insight Journal.
>
> As fas as I know, pdflatex can be found in most Linux distributions
> as well as Cygwin.
>
> I commented out from the InsightJournal.sty the lines for invoking
> the ImageMagik 'convert' tool. Those who prefer to use latex directly
> can restore these lines and in this way recover the previous behavior.
>
> If somebody knows a way of checking whether the style is being invoked
> from "latex" or from "pdflatex" please let us know, so we can find a
> way of making the enabling/disabling of these lines to be automatic.
>
>
>
>
>     Thanks for pointing this out.
>
>
>
>         Luis
>
>
>
>
> ----------------------
> Gaetan Lehmann wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm using tex -> dvi -> ps -> pdf without much problem. It just 
>> require to have a Makefile to do that. Here is mine: 
>> http://voxel.jouy.inra.fr/darcs/contrib-itk/template/article/Makefile
>>
>> That said, I agree that the IJ template should allow to use pdflatex :-)
>>
>> Gaetan
>>
>> On Wednesday 22 February 2006 19:06, Joshua Cates wrote:
>>
>>> 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?
>>>>
>>>> *Jim Miller*
>>>> *//**/_____________________________________/*//
>>>> /////Visualization & Computer Vision
>>>> GE Research
>>>> Bldg. KW, Room C223
>>>> 1 Research Circle, Schenectady NY 12309-1027
>>>>
>>>> _millerjv at research.ge.com <mailto:millerjv at research.ge.com>_/
>>>> /(518) 387-4005, Dial Comm: 8*833-4005/
>>>> /Cell: (518) 505-7065, Fax: (518) 387-6981/
>>>>
>>>>
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