[OS X TeX] Placing eps figures

[George Gratzer]

You know, Bruno, it is really depressing what has happened with  
Textures.

I corresponded with Barry Smith last in October 12:

> Hello Professor Gratzer,
>
> I do not believe that it will be a problem;
> actually we are preparing to announce a -very-
> skeletal (but quite functional, and fast) version
> of Textures within the next 30-90 days.
>
> (It's a sad tale about Y & Y, alas.)
>
>
> Best,
>
>
> Barry

It is also a sad tale about Textures and Barry, the inventor of  
Synchronization.

GG

On Jun 2, 2006, at 12:31 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:

> Le 2 juin 06 à 14:43, Ashim Datta a écrit :
>
>> I would really appreciate some help.  I have a lot of eps figures  
>> that in the past I used Textures and \epsfbox in the package  
>> epsf.def to place.  I am considering migrating to Texshop since  
>> Textures is not available for my Intel mac.  I do not want to  
>> convert figures to pdf and would like to continue to use the  
>> epsf.def package.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> epsf.def was simply an adaptation to Textures of epsf.tex, written  
> for dvips which is the standard DVI driver on Linux, among other  
> platforms. epsf.tex is there on Mac OS X, and works without  
> requiring any preliminary adaptation.
>
> Simply install TeXShop (which is a front-end) and gwTeX (Gerben  
> Wierda's distribution of TeX, dvips and friends for Mac OS X).  
> You'll see afterwards that epsf.tex is indeed there, at /Library/ 
> teTeX/share/texmf.tetex/tex/generic/epsf/epsf.tex. Simply replace
>
> 	\input epsf.def
>
> by
>
> 	\input epsf
>
> and then make sure you typeset your documents in TeXShop's "TeX and  
> Ghostscript" mode (actually TeX -> dvips -> GhostScript). This mode  
> is selected either on a per-document basis in TeXShop's Typeset  
> menu, or generally in TeXShop's Typeset prefs.
>
> Otherwise you should feel fairly at ease in TeXShop, whose user  
> interface is similar to Textures. One thing you might miss is  
> Textures' ability to use Mac OS fonts natively. If that is indeed  
> the case, then XeTeX <http://scripts.sil.org/xetex> is for you (but  
> it can't deal with EPS figures).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Bruno Voisin (user of Textures from 1991 to  
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