[Insight-developers] Re: Inserting graphics on LaTeX / Insight.sty

[Will Schroeder]

Hi Luis-

Will this work on any platform/OS?

Will

At 10:09 PM 7/28/2001 -0400, Luis Ibanez wrote:

>In order to simplify the insertion of graphics in
>latex files, the "graphics" package is included 
>by default in Insight.sty.  So you don't have to 
>do it in your .tex files.
>
>It has also been configured to accept not only 
>.eps (encapsulated postscript) files but also :
>
>      .gif, .jpg, .tiff and .bmp
>
>Basically a macro calls "convert" (one of the 
>tools in ImageMagik set) that will convert the
>image on-the-fly, without creating a file for it.
>
>
>However, latex needs help determining the bounding
>box of the image, so users have to provide a file
>with a line containing this bounding box.
>For that purpouse there is a simply shell file:
>
> InsightDocuments/Latex/extractImageBoundingBox.sh
>
>it will create for a file           : myImage.gif 
>the corresponding (very small) file : myImage.gif.bb
>
>containing only one line of text. The use is:
>
>>    extractImageBoundingBox.sh   myImage.gif
>
>
>In that way you can check in images in any format
>that "convert" can convert to eps. (the list of 
>accepted formats is quite complete)
>
>
>
> 
>Additionaly in InsightDocuments/User/AlgorithmsGuide
>
>the file RegistrationFrameworkChapter.tex have some
>examples about how to make text flow around a graphic,
>and how to rotate and scale graphics at the time of 
>insertion.
>
>a search for the command \includgraphic will lead
>to the interesting places. They all look like
>
>   \begin{figure}
>       \includegraphics{myImage.jpg}
>       \caption{This is a caption for the image}
>   \end{figure}
>
>
>For making text flow around the image the 
>
>   \begin{floatingfigure}
>   \end{floatingfigure}
>
>environment is used.
>
>
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>
>   Luis