[comp.text] macpaint files into latex

hobson@aramis.rutgers.edu (Kevin Hobson) (09/13/87)

In article <1181@sabbath.rutgers.edu> priediti@sabbath.rutgers.edu (Armand Prieditis) writes:

> Does anyone out there in tex-land know how to get a macpaint file
> into a latex file?  Thanks,
> 
> --Armand Prieditis

Good news:
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You can place MacIntosh files in LaTeX or TeX.

Bad News:
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You cannot get those files on the same page as the TeX document
(future?). You must include Apple's laserprep file at the beginning of
document after it is run through dvi2ps. Print the macintosh documents
on a machine with a laserwriter (i.e. MAC or favorite UNIX and/or VMS
machine) and merge them with the TeX documents, later.

For anyone who wants to know:
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TeX and Apple (i.e. MacIntosh documents) postscript definitions take
over each printed page, depending on whose turn it is. If you know
postscript (language use on the laserwriter) and write the graphics
and/or text routines indepedent of the device, you can place them on
the same page as TeX (ArborText "Publisher" shows examples on the
Sun).
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trevor@linc.cis.upenn.edu (Trevor Darrell) (09/13/87)

I hacked up a set of TeX macros and PostScript functions to do
aritrary PostScript inclusion ( including macintosh, etc... ) Only
problem is it runs with dvips (from arbortext), and I have no idea
when the new dvi2ps release with the \specials psfig needs will be
out.  Anyway it is available for anonymos ftp from linc.cis.upenn.edu;
an older version was sent over net.sources a while ago and should be
stored at the various net archives.


--trevor
Trevor Darrell

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