[OS X TeX] Is there a better alternative to \DeclareGraphicsExtensions ?

[Akshay Gulati]

So what we are doing here is converting tiff image in to png, I am  
wondering which is the best for latex, jpeg, eps, png or tiff.
I mean which should be preferred way of including graphics

Thanks

Akshay
On 24-Mar-09, at 6:59 PM, Ramón Figueroa-Centeno wrote:

>
> Aloha,
>
> Here is an answer to my own question:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{graphicx}
> \usepackage{epspdfconversion} % or \usepackage{epstopdf}
> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.tif}{png}{.png}{`convert #1 `dirname #1`/ 
> `basename #1 .tif`.png}
> \AppendGraphicsExtensions{.tif}
> % See .log file for a list of known graphics
> % extensions
> \begin{document}
> \includegraphics{Hello} % Do not use a suffix. That way Hello.tif  
> will be converted to Hello.png
> \end{document}
>
> The \AppendGraphicsExtensions command appends to the list of known  
> graphic extensions (to prepend use \PrependGraphicsExtensions).
>
> That way TIFFs get converted only once to PNGs (the other solution  
> presented in the list, using tif2png.sty, is better in the sense  
> that it detects when the TIFFs are updated and reconverts them).
>
> Ramón
>
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