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How to easily include 100 color jpg's as black/white images in latex??

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HMD

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Jan 3, 2002, 4:51:45 AM1/3/02
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I need to include a batch of 100 color images in jpg format in my latex
document as easy and fast as possible... how do i handle this??

By the way... the images should preferably be converted to black and white
as well...

Thanx in advance,

HM


Sven Utcke

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Jan 3, 2002, 5:40:12 AM1/3/02
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"HMD" <h.dur...@geenspam.student.utwente.nl> writes:

What OS, and how should the layout look like? Under Unix, and with a
very simple layout, it should be easily possible to write a small
script to do this...

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HMD

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Jan 3, 2002, 7:10:28 AM1/3/02
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> What OS, and how should the layout look like? Under Unix, and with a
> very simple layout, it should be easily possible to write a small
> script to do this...

The OS is Win NT 4...
I'm afraid that it will be necessary to convert tje jpg's to eps format, am
I right?


Magnus Bäck

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Jan 3, 2002, 7:30:38 AM1/3/02
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Not if you use pdfLaTeX or some DVI driver that copes with JPEG (dvips
doesn't). If you do need to convert them to EPS, use jpeg2ps or some
other tool that uses the features of PostScript Level 2 to get reason-
able file sizes.

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Sven Utcke

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Jan 3, 2002, 10:43:40 AM1/3/02
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"HMD" <h.dur...@geenspam.student.utwente.nl> writes:

> > What OS, and how should the layout look like? Under Unix, and with a
> > very simple layout, it should be easily possible to write a small
> > script to do this...
>
> The OS is Win NT 4...

Then I can't be much use. Unix would have been easy...

> I'm afraid that it will be necessary to convert tje jpg's to eps
> format, am I right?

Well, you could use pdflatex or a dvi-driver which understands jpegs
(no, I don't know of any). With dvips, you would need to wrap each
jpeg into a short piece of PS-code (well, have a tool do it for you,
of course :-).

Matthew Amster-Burton

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Jan 3, 2002, 1:31:18 PM1/3/02
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"HMD" <h.dur...@geenspam.student.utwente.nl> wrote in
news:a119o9$ne9$1...@dinkel.civ.utwente.nl:

I once did almost exactly what you describe to prepare flash cards for an
architecture class. I used a combination of Perl to write out LaTeX code
(http://www.activestate.com/ and a good free version for NT) and ImageMagick
(http://www.imagemagick.org/) to convert images and it worked like a charm.
I used pdfLaTeX and stuck with jpg format.

Best of luck,
Matthew

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