Eric Bischoff writes: > 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. They are converted only if there's no converted file. Conversion can be suppressed with "touch", for testing purposes... > - it requires disciple from your authors ;-) Well... Everything would require that, but all this process can be mapped to Emacs and it can asks interactively by these parameters. VI/pico/jed/etc users can run these by hand. 1. There's no perfect solution. 2. "Make a foul proof tool and only a foul would use it". These two sayings are very useful guidelines when developing something :-) -- Godoy. Departamento de Publicações Publishing Department Conectiva S.A.