Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: Notesfiles hp 2.0 03/25/85; site hplabsb.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!hplabs!hplabsb!marvit
From: marvit@hplabsb.UUCP (Peter Marvit)
Newsgroups: net.text
Subject: TeX: Including graphics?
Message-ID: <17800001@hplabsb.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-May-86 23:01:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.17800001
Posted: Thu May 29 23:01:00 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 31-May-86 05:45:36 EDT
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories - Palo Alto, CA
Lines: 19

\relax

I want to include graphics into TeX documents.  The \special seems to be
the TeX hook.  However, there's the dvi-->printer problem.  Has anyone
done any work in this area or have pointers thereof?

I leave the word "graphics" deliberately vague since I'm looking for a 
general solution to bit-mapped, raster, HP-GL, etc., if possible.  How-
ever, I'd like to hear of device/machine specific solutions.  One idea
I've heard is to convert the graphics image to METAFONT macros and let
METAFONT create one character which is the entire image.  What do you 
think?

If you post to the net, please e-mail me a copy.


Peter Marvit		ARPA:  marvit@hplabs.arpa
HP Labs 		UUCP:  ...!hplabs!marvit
415/857-6646