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>>>>> On 2 Sep 92 16:12:14 GMT, skyvington@republique.ilog.fr (William Skyvington) said:
Wil> I save my Illustrator documents with the PICT option (in the
Wil> dialog box) set to "Macintosh black and white". As for my MacDraw
Wil> Pro stuff, I've got into the habit of always saving it as EPSF.
Wil> Consequently, when I'm working with Textures, I actually see all
Wil> this artwork on the screen in my typeset window. So, all this is
Wil> marvelous!

Wil> BUT... there's a hitch. When I boot up A/UX and drag all this
Wil> stuff across into the Unix file system, and try to run it with
Wil> our network LaTeX system (using exactly the same style macros as
Wil> in Textures), the Rokicki EPSF macros don't seem to be able to
Wil> handle the MacDraw Pro EPSF files and the Illustrator files saved
Wil> with the PICT option set to "Macintosh black and white". The
Wil> LaTeX document appears to get typeset, but the results are
Wil> garbage wherever an illustration is meant to appear. And the
Wil> resulting .dvi file hangs up the laser printer.

Wil> If I save my Illustrator documents with the PICT option set to
Wil> "none (with EPSF header)", everything works perfectly with the
Wil> Rokicki EPSF macros on the Unix Latex system. On the other hand,
Wil> I don't seem to be able to do anything at all with the MacDraw
Wil> Pro artwork.

Wil> Can anybody tell me whether the Rokicki EPSF macros can be
Wil> modified so that they'll work in a Unix LaTeX environment with
Wil> both MacDraw Pro EPSF files and Illustrator files with the PICT
Wil> option set to "Macintosh black and white"?

epsf.sty has nothing to do with this: your problem should be that
there is a mismatch between your graphics file and your
previewer/printer. In Adobe Illustrator, a normal file won't print on Unix
because A.Ill uses special macros whose definition are in the
LaserWriter Prep file. If you include EPSF header-no preview, you do
get the definitions along, so it prints.

Now, I always thought that including the B&W-Mac preview only added a
resource fork containing the bitmap for previewing, which TeXtures was
able to reproduce. The text (or data fork) which gets transferred (via
ftp or whatever) to your Unix workstation should be exactly the same as
with EPSF header-no preview. Could you check this, please?
Otherwise, my faith in EPS will shade away...

Sincerely,
Jean.
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