Re: PostScript Figures in LaTeX?

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From: Mike Scott
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1990 14:16

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In article <1990Feb20.180954.27574@sctc.com> thomsen@sctc.com (Dan Thomsen) writes:
>I have heard that postscript figures can be included in Latex documents.
>Has anyone had any luck doing this?  Is any special software needed?
>

I think this is a thoroughly bad idea. Latex is supposed to be
virtually-everything-independent. What happens when some poor soul
tries to print your postscript-containing code on, say, a DEC LNO3??
Much better to use the (admittedly poor) latex drawing stuff if at all
possible. Or be honest, and write the whole lot in postscript :-)

Oh yes, I should add we got bitten by this one recently. About 3 pages
of postcript diagrams embedded in several hundred pages of printout.

>Thanks

No thanks.

>
>Dan Thomsen
>thomsen@sctc.com

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