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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: LaTeX equation as figure in DocBook XML
XEP supports EPS graphics only when using the PS backend. This works quite well for our equations (created with MathType, not LaTeX) and other EPS graphics. GhostScript then does a nice job of converting the PS to PDF. AFAIK, the only thing you lose going this way is TrueType fonts. Jeff Beal -----Original Message----- From: Paul A. Hoadley [mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net] Sent: Monday, January 06, 2003 7:51 AM To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: LaTeX equation as figure in DocBook XML Hello, I want to include some equations as figures in a DocBook document. From my research I gather there are several ways to solve this problem, but I am constrained by wanting to use XML source, then via XSL-FO to PDF with XEP, so this rules out any use of TeX within the toolchain itself. I am reasonably happy with using PNG as the image format (XEP seemed to _almost_ accept EPSI, but there was no output) but my initial experiments have produced mediocre results. I have tried: LaTeX -> DVI (with LaTeX, using \pagestyle{empty}) DVI -> PS (with dvips) PS -> PNM (with convert) PNM -> PNM (with pnmcrop to get the equation alone) PNM -> PNG (with pnmtopng) The image quality is mediocre, and too small. There would seem to be a number of points in the chain where I could try to increase the image size, and I will go on to try GIF as a format to see if the resulting bitmap is better. I have a feeling others may have previously invented this wheel -- what do people recommend in this setting? -- Paul. mailto:paulh@logicsquad.net mailto:paul.hoadley@student.adelaide.edu.au
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