<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Le 10 févr. 2015 à 03:09, Gary L. Gray <<a href="mailto:euler@psu.edu" class="">euler@psu.edu</a>> a écrit :<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On Feb 9, 2015, at 5:30 PM, Salomon, David <<a href="mailto:david.salomon@csun.edu" class="">david.salomon@csun.edu</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">I attach a short test, both the TeX source and output files. The source file (in PLAIN format) uses \special{illustration filename} as part of macro \illustration, to place figures in the document. The output file (only the first page is attached) shows that the PDF figure is way outside the typeset page, while the EPS figure was placed correctly.<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="">I am guessing your figures will work if you crop the PDF to it’s ArtBox. I do this using Adobe Illustrator, but I am sure you can do it with ghostscript (or probably even Preview). I can do a quick test if you send me a .tex file and an offending PDF file that you include in the .tex file using Textures commands.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Same as Gary: your TeX source includes only the .tex file itself, not the figures gapless.pdf and squarescan.eps, hence we can't really test.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've been using all released alpha and beta versions of Textures 2.2.0 (including now 2.2.0b19) and do not remember experiencing specific problems with figures. Until a few years back, EPS was my figure format of choice, included either directly in .tex documents or after conversion to PDF using either Preview, Ghostscript or the command-line tools pstopdf (built in OS X) or epstopdf (added by MacTeX).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">But now transparency is becoming increasingly common (for example in Mathematica's 3D graphic output) and this isn't supported by EPS, so PDF is becoming mandatory. Unfortunately PDF is often of paper-size format (Letter or A4 say) instead of being cropped to the image content inside. I'm using Illustrator to correct this, the same way Gary does I guess (the following is for Illustrator CS 6, with approximate translations from the French):</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Open the Artboards panel, select Artboards Options:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="638" width="788" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="B7243ADD-92D5-460C-82B8-113787C85EA6" src="cid:EDE377B2-EF5E-4C46-A4B8-EE2CC0BB59E0" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- In the Preset Parameter menu, select Adjust to Illustration Limits:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="986" width="788" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="5C6EAE99-900F-4366-A091-84D2CFC13A99" src="cid:E1B3EF07-C399-4C67-8078-CA2CD64E3799" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- You're done:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><img height="814" width="788" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" apple-inline="yes" id="49F1B526-D244-4960-8F18-C097B0FC9E31" src="cid:9BE88A76-C203-4994-882C-AD880BD65D25" class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You may also do this in Preview, of course, but you will have to set the cropping area manually instead of having Illustrator set it automatically for you.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I would rather stay with Textures as long as possible because the alternative, TeXshop, is slow and its output is only in pdf. There is no dvi or PS. For me, this is a problem, because I need to prepare the final manuscript as a pdf file in a special format for the publisher. Also, TeXshop accepts figures in PDF only.<br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">TeXShop does accept figures in EPS (and JPEG, and PNG). It's actually not TeXShop, but the underlying TeX Live distribution that goes with it (ie MacTeX).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are two ways of doing this:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- Select TeX and DVI mode in the Typeset menu, this will make TeXShop use TeX + dvips, which accept EPS figures directly. But dvips on the other hand has problems with hyperlinks (it cannot cut them across lines), so it's getting increasingly phased out I think.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- In standard pdfTeX mode, if you have a reasonably recent MacTeX, EPS-to-PDF conversion is done on-the-fly automatically, so you don't have to do anything: just bring your EPS figures as they are, pdfTeX will process them transparently.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">A general question: Does Textures 2.2.0b19 work under OS 10.9? Under OS 10.10?</blockquote><br class="">I don’t know -- I haven’t used Textures in almost 15 years. I can test it under 10.10 if you tell me where to download it.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2.2.0b19 is the version I'm using (the non-Retina blend). It was only announced on this list:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/textures/2013-June/000122.html" class="">https://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/textures/2013-June/000122.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The Dropbox link is still valid, I just checked. I've no idea whether the Gordon Lee who posted this was the actual Gordon Lee, or a hacker who unlocked the program and wishes to remain anonymous.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In addition, two things are needed:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- The Inputs folder. You can set up Textures to use symlinks to the relevant parts of MacTeX, but there are files like textures.def, namely the Textures driver file for the graphics package (by Arthur Ogawa), that were only available from Blue Sky. The link at <<a href="http://www.blueskytex.com/lastpage.html" class="">http://www.blueskytex.com/lastpage.html</a>> is no longer functional.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">- The CM fonts. These were on the disk image for Textures 2.2.0b18, but again the link at the above page is dead.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can get the two from (the links will expire in a month)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><<a href="http://servbox.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/file.php?h=R8186d185ba50ca5a23105fe8a780d14c" class="">http://servbox.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/file.php?h=R8186d185ba50ca5a23105fe8a780d14c</a>> (Inputs.zip, 2.4 MB)</div><div class=""><<a href="http://servbox.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/file.php?h=R767e7e259dc322c813cce21b796697f0" class="">http://servbox.legi.grenoble-inp.fr/file.php?h=R767e7e259dc322c813cce21b796697f0</a>> (Textures220b.dmg, 5.9 MB)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">That said, see my reservations on Textures in the next message.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruno</div></body></html>