[GLLUG] postscript document

[Julie Code]

Hey Guys,
         Guess what?!?! I got it to work finally! Thanks to all of you! =) 
Here is what I did: I went into gwenview with all of my digital camera 
pictures, saved the all my pictures that were jpegs as eps.  Then scaled my 
picture down with a scale command in front of include graphics command.... 
here is an example

\begin{figure}
\centering\scale{.48}{\includegraphics{/home/julie/im004704.eps}}
\caption{Cleared Abacus}
\label{Figure 1.1}
\end{figure}

Cool huh, and it worked! =) I barely know what the heck I am doing, but hey 
I am learning! Does anyone know what the command is to get the picture in a 
specific spot? I am not sure if I know how to do that yet.  I do know of 
{btm} command i think but that is about all and not sure if i know even what 
that does.

Julie

>From: "Sean O'Malley" <picasso at madflower.com>
>To: <linux-user at egr.msu.edu>
>Subject: Re: [GLLUG] postscript document
>Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:00:41 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>
>On Tue, 29 May 2007, Clay Dowling wrote:
>
> >
> > Marr wrote:
> > > A quick work-around would be to just convert the graphic into EPS 
>format.
> > > Assuming you have the ImageMagick suite of tools, try this:
> > >
> > >    convert im004704.jpg im004704.eps
> > >
> >
> > Indeed, as I think on the subject that is how I managed the problem in 
>the
> > past.  Less of a hack and more of the way LaTeX was designed.  You can
> > include JPG images if you are just outputing with dvipdfm, but it's a
> > package-specific thing.
> >
>from:
>http://amath.colorado.edu/documentation/LaTeX/reference/figures.html
>It appears you can use pdflatex if you want to go straight to pdf
>  using:
>\includegraphics[angle=45,width=52mm]{myfig.jpg}
>
>If at all possible, you want to avoid bitmapped images and use a vector
>based graphic format.  I -do- realize it isn't always possible or
>practical. Converting a bitmap/raster format like bmp, jpeg, gif, tiff,
>etc to a vector format like EPS, svg, postscript, etc just makes a huge
>file without the benefits of using a vector based output.
>
>I think Adobe added jpeg, gif and bmp libraries and tags to Acrobat so you
>are just embedding the raster image inside the pdf to significantly reduce
>filesizes which I assume is how pdflatex works.
>
>
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