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- From: orloff@surya4.cern.ch (Jean Orloff)
- Subject: Re: Rokicki's EPSF macros
- In-Reply-To: skyvington@republique.ilog.fr's message of 2 Sep 92 16:12:14 GMT
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- Organization: CERN, European Research Center for Particle Physics
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- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 15:14:12 GMT
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- >>>>> On 2 Sep 92 16:12:14 GMT, skyvington@republique.ilog.fr (William Skyvington) said:
- Wil> I save my Illustrator documents with the PICT option (in the
- Wil> dialog box) set to "Macintosh black and white". As for my MacDraw
- Wil> Pro stuff, I've got into the habit of always saving it as EPSF.
- Wil> Consequently, when I'm working with Textures, I actually see all
- Wil> this artwork on the screen in my typeset window. So, all this is
- Wil> marvelous!
-
- Wil> BUT... there's a hitch. When I boot up A/UX and drag all this
- Wil> stuff across into the Unix file system, and try to run it with
- Wil> our network LaTeX system (using exactly the same style macros as
- Wil> in Textures), the Rokicki EPSF macros don't seem to be able to
- Wil> handle the MacDraw Pro EPSF files and the Illustrator files saved
- Wil> with the PICT option set to "Macintosh black and white". The
- Wil> LaTeX document appears to get typeset, but the results are
- Wil> garbage wherever an illustration is meant to appear. And the
- Wil> resulting .dvi file hangs up the laser printer.
-
- Wil> If I save my Illustrator documents with the PICT option set to
- Wil> "none (with EPSF header)", everything works perfectly with the
- Wil> Rokicki EPSF macros on the Unix Latex system. On the other hand,
- Wil> I don't seem to be able to do anything at all with the MacDraw
- Wil> Pro artwork.
-
- Wil> Can anybody tell me whether the Rokicki EPSF macros can be
- Wil> modified so that they'll work in a Unix LaTeX environment with
- Wil> both MacDraw Pro EPSF files and Illustrator files with the PICT
- Wil> option set to "Macintosh black and white"?
-
- epsf.sty has nothing to do with this: your problem should be that
- there is a mismatch between your graphics file and your
- previewer/printer. In Adobe Illustrator, a normal file won't print on Unix
- because A.Ill uses special macros whose definition are in the
- LaserWriter Prep file. If you include EPSF header-no preview, you do
- get the definitions along, so it prints.
-
- Now, I always thought that including the B&W-Mac preview only added a
- resource fork containing the bitmap for previewing, which TeXtures was
- able to reproduce. The text (or data fork) which gets transferred (via
- ftp or whatever) to your Unix workstation should be exactly the same as
- with EPSF header-no preview. Could you check this, please?
- Otherwise, my faith in EPS will shade away...
-
- Sincerely,
- Jean.
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