Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument

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Sebastian Rahtz <>
Date
2001-04-11T08:23:09+00:00
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Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument
Richard Sharpe writes:
 > >I don't know... sgml2x *calls* pdfjadetex!  And it works fine with
 > >EPS files... in fact, I've always thought pdfjadetex worked fine with
 > >EPS so I have been extremely surprised to see the recent suggestions
 > >to NOT use EPS files.  Have you tried it and had it fail?
 > 
 > Oh yes, it fails with a message about LaTeX not understanding eps ...

pdfTeX does not, probably never will, understand EPS files. there is
no Postscript interpreter to do the work.  I suspect the script
quietly convertts EPS to PDF on the fly

Sebastian