[MiKTeX] Re: cannot include postscript

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.comp.tex.miktex as well.

> * Ulrich Dirr <hq@neg-fngm.qr> [2005-06-18 10:03:59 +0200]:
>
>> \usepackage{graphicx}
>> \DeclareGraphicsRule{.prn}{eps}{.prn}{}
>> \includegraphics[draft=false,height=\linewidth,angle=90]{ex1-d ep-bw.prn}
>
> This indicates already that there's something wrong. Your file name
> extension looks like you want to include a (maybe postscript) *print*
> file.  These files having postscript operators (especially a showpage)
> which by default are not allowed for inclusion of graphics. Don't try
> to include multipage print files.

this is a single page file.
I commented out "showpage" and "PageSV restore" right before "end"

>> both latex and pdflatex appear to work just fine and produce
>> no errors:
>> ... [4] <ex1-dep-bw.prn> [5] ...
>> 
>> dvips appears to work just fine and produces no errors:
>> ... [6<ex1-dep-bw.prn><ex1-dep-bw.prn>] ...
>
> So your first sentence is wrong -- you obviously have included it.

the point is that neither PS nor PDF viewers nor paper printout contains
my diagram.
in what sense is the graphics "included" then?
I don't care about this fine point though.
if you say that the graphics is indeed included -- great!
how do I get it to print?

> First you should produce single page graphics.

it is single page.

> Then try to find some tools to convert the Powerpoint file to EPS,
> PDF, or some bitmap format, e.g., when I'm running Powerpoint (and
> having Acrobat installed) I have a button to produce a pdf file. Then
> you can extract the pages you need with pdfpages (for inclusion of
> complete pages) or the Acrobat extract pages feature or export... Or
> you take your print file into Ghostview/Ghostscript and produce single
> page EPS files.

I did:
--- ex1-dep-1-color.eps	2005-06-20 09:49:48.149849600 -0400
+++ ex1-dep-1-color.prn	2005-06-17 16:27:02.376566400 -0400
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-%!PS-Adobe-3.0 EPSF-3.0
+%!PS-Adobe-3.0
 %%Title: Microsoft PowerPoint - ex1-dep-1.ppt
 %%Creator: Windows NT 4.0
 %%CreationDate: 16:22 6/17/2005
 %%Pages: (atend)
-%%BoundingBox: 14 14 600 780
+%%BoundingBox: 15 14 777 596
 %%LanguageLevel: 3
 %%DocumentNeededFonts: (atend)
 %%DocumentSuppliedFonts: (atend)


as you can see, the BoundingBox was already there.

options->eps warn
does not give any warnings when opening the file.

the _only_ thing that appears to work is ps2pdf on prn and then
pdflatex.  yuk.



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