[OS X TeX] I do like ps4pdf

[Vince McGarry]

Excellent, Herb. Simply excellent. Thanks so much.

Vince

On 2/6/05 11:57 AM, "Herb Schulz" <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> The ps4pdf that comes with Gerben's i-installer does work out of the box but
> you've got to know the sequence of things you've got to do. The Makefile
> that comes with the sample does it but the best documentation is Table 2
> from the TUGBoat article available as a .pdf file from
> 
> <http://www.perce.de/LaTeX/ps4pdf/>.
> 
> I've written a TeXShop engine file to do the basic work and a single final
> processing (e.g., if you need BibTeX processing, etc., you'll have to add
> more to the file) of a file set up for ps4pdf. Copy the text below into a
> text editor and save it with UNIX line endings with the name `ps4pdf.engine'
> (without the quotes of course) in ~/Library/TeXShop/Engines/ and it will
> show up on the drop down typesetting menu on the source window's tool bar.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> location=$(dirname "$1")
> basefname="${location}/`basename "$1" .tex`"
> # process the figures
> latex $1
> dvips -Ppdf -o "${basefname}-pics.ps" "${basefname}.dvi"
> ps2pdf13 "${basefname}-pics.ps" "${basefname}-pics.pdf"
> /bin/rm "${basefname}-pics.ps" "${basefname}.dvi"
> #process the file (once)
> pdflatex --shell-escape "$1"
> 
> This will leave the extra file file-pics.pdf, where `file' is the original
> base file name without the extension. By the way, all the extra double
> quotes are to take care of possible problems with directories with spaces in
> their names, Sigh...
> 
> Once the figures are all the way you want them to be just compile the
> document with pdflatex alone and the figures in the file-pics.pdf file will
> be properly placed. Very Nice!
> 
> As far as I can tell the only time you run into ``trouble'' is if you want
> to convert the figures in the file-pics.pdf file back into individual .eps
> figures. Then  you've got to do something about the `seq' command.
> 
> If this can be simplifies further please let me know.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
> 
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