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From: fikree@hydra.bucknell.edu (mateen fikree)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Including PostScript files in a LaTeX document
Message-ID: <351@hydra.bucknell.edu>
Date: 12 Feb 90 15:58:57 GMT
Reply-To: fikree@hydra.bucknell.edu (Mateen Fikree)
Organization: Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
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Greetings,
       As the title indicates I am trying to include PostScript files into a
LaTeX document using Psfig.  Here is a detailed description of what I am
trying to do:

I made a screen dump of a dialog box from a program that I am writing, using
clover-shift-3.  This created a MacPaint file.  Next, I used SuperPaint to edit
this file and then created a PostScript file by pressing clover-f after
selecting OK in the print dialog box.  Next, I printed the figure from
SuperPaint.  I then determined the BoundingBox for the fugure using a Points
ruler.  After including the bounding box into the PostScript figure, I
included this file into my LaTeX document.  Here is how I did this:

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\input psfig.tex

\begin{document}
  :
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\begin{figure}
\psfig{figure=FigPrint1.ps}
\end{figure}

\end{document}

When I tex this document it does not complain and includes the PostScript
figure.  I should mention that presently the figure I am including is the last
thing in the document, but later I will be including figures throughout my
document.  When I try to print this figure on an Apple LaserWriter printer,
I notice that the printer is processing my document but it prints nothing.
The printer flushes the whole document.  I even tried to include the
mac prolog file by exchanging the \psfig{figure=FigPrint1.ps} with
\psfig{figure=FigPrint1.ps,prolog=mac.pro} in my LaTeX document.  But it still
did not work and did the same thing (i.e. printed nothing).

Does anyone out there know what I am doing wrong and do I correct this???  Or
how should I include various screen dumps into a LaTeX document.

Please reply by e-mail.  Thanks in advace to all those who reply.

- Mateen Fikree


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