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From: roelofs@amelia.nas.nasa.gov (Cave Newt)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: PCTeX/LaTeX and Draw/Paint/Charting???
Keywords: LaTeX, draw/paint/chart
Message-ID: <7553@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Date: 28 Jul 90 20:49:19 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: University of Chicago
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toptsis@uicbert.eecs.uic.edu writes:

>I use LaTeX on PC to do my word processing stuff. It is a greate typesetter 
>but I always have one problem that makes me sick. How (if possible) can
>I import pictures-drawings-charts-etc in a LaTeX document? Is there
>any software around that allows you doing so? 

See the frequently-asked questions list in comp.text.tex (posted about a
week ago, I think).  It answers this and many similar questions.

>I know there is a product
>for MacIntoshes (MacTeX) which allows to paste MacPaint files within
>TeX files. I am so tired of the limitations in the PC,  I really think
>of trashing the whole thing and get a Mac and the appropriate s/w. 

Not so hasty, dude!  As it now stands (to the best of my knowledge),
there is much better support for TeX on the PC than on the Mac, at least 
in the freeware category (and most of the free software is better than 
the commercial stuff, anyway).  In particular, the recently-released
emTeX distribution from Eberhard Mattes has just about every TeX utility
imaginable, and a few more besides.  He will be releasing TeX 3.0/Metafont
2.0 very shortly (at the moment I think he's at 2.991 and ??), so you 
might wish to hold on a few weeks until that comes out.  If you have to
have TeX 3.0 immediately, check out Wayne Sullivan's SBTeX.  It can be
found on Simtel, along with a number of drivers; emTeX is on terminator
(.cc.umich.edu?  something like that).  But check out the FAQ list first.