space@ncc1701.UUCP (Lars Soltau) (04/07/90)
In article <4667@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes: > >Somebody wrote in the original poster's summary: >>AmigaTeX also supports bitmapped (IFF) graphics, and encapsulated >>PostScript inclusions for you convenience. > > Does that mean I can create a DVI file on an Amiga that >includes data for my IFF file, transfer the DVI file to another machine, >and print it there? Or do I have to use AmigaTeX's printer driver? >(I don't have a printer on my Amiga, but I'd like to include IFF files >in TeX documents.) AmigaTeX only creates a reference in the DVI file where and how to imbed the bitmap. Then the printer driver walks over the DVI file and at the appropriate place reads in the IFF file and calculates the stretching etc. You do not even need the IFF file until you use the printer driver. BTW, I don't know of any TeX implementation that imbeds the bitmap data into the DVI file. As an educated guess I should say that the DVI format does not support real bitmap data. -- Lars Soltau bang: ...uunet!doitcr!ncc1701!space BIX: --no bucks-- smart: ncc1701!space@nadia.UUCP