Sebastian,
It seems, from Richard's other comments, that I was mistaken about
sgml2x calling pdfjadetex. Apologies for asserting that it did so
without really examining the code.
Dan
On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 09:22:18AM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> 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
>
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