X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["480" "Thu" "26" "November" "1998" "12:49:41" "GMT" "David Carlisle" "davidc@NAG.CO.UK" nil "13" "Re: portable LaTeX" "^Date:" nil nil "11" nil nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by mail.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04595; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:54:13 +0100 (MET) Received: from lsv1.listserv.gmd.de (192.88.97.2) by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.1a) with SMTP id <8.B58A7B12@listserv.gmd.de>; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:54:11 +0100 Received: from RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 411429 for LATEX-L@RELAY.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:50:15 +0100 Received: from nag.co.uk (openmath.nag.co.uk [192.156.217.16]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA04079 for ; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:50:09 +0100 (MET) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by nag.co.uk (AIX4.2/UCB 8.7/8.7) id MAA22392; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:49:41 GMT References: <199811261227.NAA14424@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> Message-ID: <199811261249.MAA22392@nag.co.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <199811261227.NAA14424@na6.mathematik.uni-tuebingen.de> (message from Marcel Oliver on Thu, 26 Nov 1998 13:27:32 +0100) Date: Thu, 26 Nov 1998 12:49:41 GMT From: David Carlisle Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: portable LaTeX Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 2934 > Would it be hard to write a script which takes an eps file, runs it > through LaTeX/psfrag, and converts the dvi output back into eps. no, it's not hard (although I have only done it a few times by hand so don't actually have a script for it). Basically this is the same process (using dvips -E, that the latex->html converters do before making gif files). That's also what you _have_ to do to use psfrag with pdftex. (So you can distil the combined eps file to pdf). David