Re: [MiKTeX] miktex with MS graphics

[Charley H. <cha...@uc...>]

Deming -

The "canonical" method (if anything in (La)TeX can be called
canonical) to extract graphics from another program for
insertion into latex is the use of an adobe generic postscript
printer driver, assuming that the program in question can't export
eps, or exports noncompliant eps.  Excel is an example of the former.
Install the generic printer driver from adobe.com, set it as the
printer, and print eps graphics to files for inclusion in latex.

If you're wedded to dvipdfm to produce your pdf output (which your #4
didn't sound like), you can use the pdfwrite or jpegwrite devices to
ghostscript after your eps printing.  Not sure this is "easier" than
your current method, except for command-line guys like me who
try to avoid the mouse at all times.  ;-)  You can write a batch file to
call ghostscript with the appropriate device to generate the pdf or jpeg
(as preferred. I think there might even be a pngwrite device in newer
ghostscript.)

You can find answers to this type of question readily by searching 
groups.google.com for the newsgroup comp.text.tex (the (La)TeX
newsgroup).

HTH,

Charley Hamilton
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