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From: Eric Bischoff <ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr>
To: egcs@cygnus.com
Cc: docbook-tools-discuss@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: images in Docbook with Red Hat 6.2
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 06:36:00 -0000
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godoy@conectiva.com.br wrote:
> 
> We work this way:
> 
> All pictures are in TIFF format (better quality)
> 
> When I choose "PS" backend, the script runs something similar to
> 
> for i in `ls directory/images/tiff/*.tiff` ; do
>     convert directory/images/tiff/$i directory/images/eps/`basename $i .tiff`.eps
> done

Yes, this is a very good solution too. It only has two small
drawback :
- it can be slow to convert all the pictures each time you
process the docbook
document. But this can be avoided through a test or using
the Makefile mechanism.
- it requires disciple from your authors ;-)

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 Éric Bischoff   -   mailto:ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr
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