Documentation

[Gary Cramblitt]

On Saturday 01 April 2006 02:13, Tomas Cerha wrote:
> Gary Cramblitt wrote:
> > I looked for an eps2pdf program but could only find them for Windows and
> > I'm running Debian Linux.  Could you convert the file for me and send it?
> >  It might work better for me.
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> I committed the pdf file into the CVS.  The program epstopdf is a part
> of the tetex-bin Debian package.
>
> > I can use ImageMagick to convert an eps file to pdf, but when I add 155mm
> > to the texi source as you suggest, it is ignored.  The result is only
> > part of the image fits on the page and texinfo mangles the document
> > pretty badly. According to my texinfo manual, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2
> > (Web2C 7.5.4):
> >
> > "Image scaling is presently implemented only in TeX, not in HTML or any
> > other sort of output."
>
> This should be ok, I guess, since the PDF manual is created using TeX.
> The HTML output uses the PNG image, which is scaled.  The info output
> uses the ascii version.
>
> I'm using the Debian texinfo package version 4.8-4.  I'd try running
> texinfo with the PDF figure from CVS.  If that doesn't help, the problem
> might be in your version of texinfo.
>
> Hope that helps.

Yes!  Image is properly sized and crystal clear now.  It would seem that 
epstopdf produces a pdf that can be scaled by texinfo, while ImageMagick does 
not (or something).  Anyway, its beautiful now.  BTW, I have texinfo 4.8-8.  
Thank you for your help.

-- 
Gary Cramblitt (aka PhantomsDad)
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