Re: [MiKTeX] epsfbox.sty to place figures on the margin

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On 11/30/06, Ashim Datta <ak...@co...> wrote:

> I would really like some help on the following:
>
> I use the following to place figures on the margin (it is called as
> \FigureM{test.eps}{This is a test} where 'This is a test' is the caption).
>
> \def\FigureM#1#2{%
>     \marginpar{\def\@captype{figure}%
>     \epsfxsize=0pt \epsfbox{#1}%
>     \caption{\protect\small #2}%
>     \label{#1}}%
>                  }
>
> It worked fine with LaTeX installation Textures on a Mac-- I had used it
> hundreds of times in a document.  As I moved things to PC with MikTeX, I am
> getting errors on eps files with a statement
>
> Text line contains an invalid character...
>
> The message is also somewhat random-- not always on the same figure.  All
> figures that I am using now are generated using ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR CS2 on
> the Windows platform.  I have tried saving in terms of older versions of
> Illustrator but did not help.  I am using epsfbox.sty version 2.7k-- is
> this an old version?  Any other thoughts or suggestions would be most
> appreciated.

Current documents should use the latex graphics package, which provides
\includegraphics[...]{figure}.  You can even use the package in plain tex via
miniltx.   You may have an old epsX macro lying around, as I think
current systems
have \epsfbox defined in terms of \includegraphics.

This message probably occurs because tex is having problems parsing
the EPS figure for the bounding box.  There have been many different
versions of the epsX macros, depending on the strategy used to read
the eps file and the dvi output device.  The advantage of the
graphics package is that it supports many output drivers via options
to the \usepackage command, and can do tricks like load .eps figures
when running in plain latex and pdf figures when running in pdflatex.

The manual is called grfguide, or look for the book: "The LaTeX
Graphics Companion".

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