Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!stl!scott From: scott@stl.stc.co.uk (Mike Scott) Newsgroups: comp.text.tex Subject: Re: PostScript Figures in LaTeX? Keywords: PostScript Latex Message-ID: <2711@stl.stc.co.uk> Date: 23 Feb 90 14:16:40 GMT References: <1990Feb20.180954.27574@sctc.com> Sender: news@stl.stc.co.uk Reply-To: "Mike Scott" Distribution: comp Organization: STC Technology Limited, London Road, Harlow, Essex, UK Lines: 29 In article <1990Feb20.180954.27574@sctc.com> thomsen@sctc.com (Dan Thomsen) writes: >I have heard that postscript figures can be included in Latex documents. >Has anyone had any luck doing this? Is any special software needed? > I think this is a thoroughly bad idea. Latex is supposed to be virtually-everything-independent. What happens when some poor soul tries to print your postscript-containing code on, say, a DEC LNO3?? Much better to use the (admittedly poor) latex drawing stuff if at all possible. Or be honest, and write the whole lot in postscript :-) Oh yes, I should add we got bitten by this one recently. About 3 pages of postcript diagrams embedded in several hundred pages of printout. >Thanks No thanks. > >Dan Thomsen >thomsen@sctc.com -- Regards. Mike Scott STL, London Road, Harlow, Essex CM17 9NA, UK scott@stl.stc.co.uk ...uunet!mcvax!ukc!stl!scott PSI%234237100122::SCOTT phone +44-279-29531 xtn 3133.