[OS X TeX] TexShop with Psfrag - Need Help

[Catherine Taff]

That looks great. I'm also looking for a way to add tags to figures  
not created in Mathematica. Is there a free program I can use to do  
that?

On Jun 18, 2008, at 4:59 PM, Michael Sharpe wrote:

> You might try Mathpsfrag, available from
>
> http://wwwth.mppmu.mpg.de/members/jgrosse/mathpsfrag/
>
> Michael
>
> On Jun 18, 2008, at 3:44 PM, Catherine Taff wrote:
>
>> I am new to LaTeX, using TexShop and trying to get psfrag to work,  
>> but am having no luck so far.
>>
>> Psfrag seems to work fine in using LaPrint with Matlab. What I  
>> want to do now is have it work with tags I put on images not  
>> created in Matlab, for example something I drew using Photoshop. I  
>> first tried using Photoshop 7 on my Mac to create the .eps and  
>> psfrag didn't work with it (no errors, just didn't work). I  
>> thought maybe Photoshop wasn't doing it right, since EPS wasn't an  
>> optional file format for saving, but "Photoshop EPS" was (are they  
>> different?).
>>
>> I tried using Mathematica 6, putting a tag on a graph created in  
>> Mathematica by using the draw capability and entering text, but  
>> that didn't work either. I'm not getting any error messages again,  
>> it's just not doing the replacement. I read through the  
>> documentation on psfrag and it said you can examine your ESP  
>> document as an ASCII and see how the tag is shown in there in  
>> order to make sure you're calling it right with psfrag. It said  
>> there would be
>>
>> (thetag) show
>>
>> somewhere in the ASCII version. I didn't find "show" anywhere in  
>> my Photoshop EPS and didn't find it in reference to the tag I  
>> added in my Mathematica-created EPS - though in the Mathematica  
>> one I found my tag referenced like this (the tag is "Rf"):
>>
>> %      "]]}}, InsetBox[Cell["Rf"], {4.649821375409347, \
>> %4271.379822432118}, {-1., 0.}]},
>>
>> It seems since it's not in there like:
>>
>> (thetag} show
>>
>> that it won't work with psfrag? Is that correct? Has anyone had  
>> success with Mathematica-added tags and psfrag? What program  
>> should I be using to add my tags in order to get psfrag to work?  
>> Are any of the problems I'm having related to the fact that I'm  
>> using TexShop? Sorry for all the questions, I'm still very new to  
>> all this.
>>
>> -Catherine
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> PS. I feel like TexShop is too good to be true - it seems to have  
>> all the functions in the one program when other ways of having  
>> LaTeX on a Mac involve many many programs. Are there limitations  
>> to TexShop that I'll run into in the future if I keep using it?  
>> Are there better ways of using LaTeX on a Mac?
>>
>>
>>
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