[OS X TeX] Textures LaTeX -> teTeX/TeXShop/iTeX LaTeX

[Alain Schremmer]

I also just got the following from Intaglio

> > You can, however, save/print your SuperPaint documents to PostScript
> > files using Classic/OS 9's print engine. A substantial benefit of this
> > is that Illustrator, for example, will correctly understand many of
> > the graphics elements in their vector form. This means you can edit
> > your graphics files in Illustrator more or less as though they had
> > been created with Illustrator in the first place. If you don't wish to
> > edit the graphics, you can convert the PS files to pdf using pstopdf
> > or Distiller. (Note that Illustrator can open your SuperPaint pict
> > files directly, but in my experience conversion through PS works 
> better.)


FWIW, this should work in Intaglio also when running under Panther.  The 
PostScript will be automatically converted to PDF and the PDF can be 
converted for editing in Intaglio.

Regards
--schremmer




Alain Schremmer wrote:

> Regarding the SuperPaint graphics files, I submitted the problem to 
> the Intaglio people. Here is their answer:
>
>      Intaglio could do it if you saved the SuperPaint file as a PICT 
> file in SuperPaint.  You could then import that file into Intaglio and 
> convert it for editing.  This should preserve the "vector" elements 
> (i.e., lines, boxes, etc.).
>
> As I said earlier, Intaglio will then save as pdf "cropped to 
> contents" and this would then be rather like the procedure I used with 
> the graphics in old Word files.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> Regards
> --schremmer
>
> Ludger Hentschel wrote:
>
>>
>>> But now my problem: TeXTures doesn't work on Mac OSX 10.3.6, and
>>> recent. I'm in the process of changing to TeXShop (appreciating much
>>> help from Dick Koch).  I would again like to use \include and
>>> \includeonly when doing individual chapters of the book. And also, I'm
>>> trying to find an easy way to manage and include all the figures I
>>> choose to have in this text. I do not want to go back to Mac OS 9, or
>>> earlier.
>>
>>
>>
>> If you have a proper installation of teTeX you should be able to 
>> convert your document by
>>
>> 1) printing/saving your SuperPaint graphics files to PS files
>> 2) converting the PS files to PDF (using pstopdf or Distiller)
>> 3) updating the way your document inserts graphics to
>>    \includegraphics[width=xin]{figure.pdf}
>> 4) running pdflatex on your document
>>
>> If you want PS output, you can convert the PS files to EPS and then 
>> run latex.
>>
>> La/TeX allows for application-specific commands through the \special 
>> command. Any of your private macros that use \special commands 
>> probably have to be updated. LaTeX macros that use \special commands 
>> will mostly work fine because your new LaTeX installation was created 
>> for teTeX. An unfortunate exception to this is pict files in LaTeX 
>> documents. In Textures, there were 2 ways of incorporating pict 
>> graphics in LaTeX documents
>>
>> \(center)picture width by height (picturename scaled nnnn), or
>>
>> \includegraphics[natwidth=xin natheight=yin]{figure.pict}.
>>
>> Neither of these will work in teTeX.
>>
>> I think it is best to convert the figures to standard LaTeX. You can 
>> do this by converting your figures to eps or pdf (see below) and then 
>> saying
>>
>> \includegraphics[width=xin]{figure.eps}, or
>>
>> \includegraphics[width=xin]{figure.pdf}
>>
>> If you did not use it before, you must also add \usepackage{graphicx} 
>> at the beginning of your document.
>>
>> I gather your graphics were created in SuperPaint. If I recall 
>> correctly, SuperPaint cannot export files to a modern grahpics 
>> format. You can, however, save/print your SuperPaint documents to 
>> PostScript files using Classic/OS 9's print engine. A substantial 
>> benefit of this is that Illustrator, for example, will correctly 
>> understand many of the graphics elements in their vector form. This 
>> means you can edit your graphics files in Illustrator more or less as 
>> though they had been created with Illustrator in the first place. If 
>> you don't wish to edit the graphics, you can convert the PS files to 
>> pdf using pstopdf or Distiller. (Note that Illustrator can open your 
>> SuperPaint pict files directly, but in my experience conversion 
>> through PS works better.)
>>
>> As far as I know, \includeonly should work as before.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ludger
>
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