Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: DOCBOOK: Efficiently including images in DocBook

[Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>]

On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 08:57:10PM +0100, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
> Nik Clayton writes:
>  > > So that the TeX version will prefer PNG over EPS.
>  > 
>  > How will that work?
>  > 
>  > When I'm using the TeX backend to product postscript then I want it to 
>  > use EPS.  When I'm using the TeX backend to produce PDF then I want it
>  > to use the PNG.
> 
> if you took a pace back, and let TeX handle it, you'd be better
> off. Get TeX mode to *omit the suffix entirely* in the output, and
> then the version of TeX (TeX or pdftex) can work out which file to
> include. So write out a request for file "foo", and pdftex will choose
> foo.pdf, and normal TeX will choose foo.eps

How does that help when I want pdftex to choose foo.png?

N
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