Re: DOCBOOK: FAQ, archives, figures and tables

[Camille Begnis <camille@mandrakesoft.com>]

Norman Walsh wrote:

> | So, figures in DocBook... I'm trying to understand the <imagedata> tag
> | and why my EPS images won't get scaled to the right width. I've tried
> | the 'width' attribute (but I don't know what units I may use), the
> | 'depth' attribute and the 'scalefit' attribute (setting it to "1"
> | doesn't seem to do anything). The only thing that seems to work is the
> | 'scale' attribut, which isn't what I want since I want my figures to
> | be exactly as wide as the text width ("\textwidth" in LaTeX).
> 
> Hmmm. Scalefit=1 and setting the width ought to do it, although
> I don't promise that it works in the TeX backend. Generally, I
> find it easier to make the figures the right size, but if you
> only care about a single backend, you might get it to work.

I confirm the exact same problem here for dvi output. Where could be the
source of that exactly?

Camille.