Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Inserting eps or pdf documents into a DocBookdocument

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@computing-services.oxford.ac.uk>]

Richard Sharpe writes:
 > >I don't know... sgml2x *calls* pdfjadetex!  And it works fine with
 > >EPS files... in fact, I've always thought pdfjadetex worked fine with
 > >EPS so I have been extremely surprised to see the recent suggestions
 > >to NOT use EPS files.  Have you tried it and had it fail?
 > 
 > Oh yes, it fails with a message about LaTeX not understanding eps ...

pdfTeX does not, probably never will, understand EPS files. there is
no Postscript interpreter to do the work.  I suspect the script
quietly convertts EPS to PDF on the fly

Sebastian