Re: More graphics questions

[Mark Komarinski <markk@cgipc.com>]

Bill,

The use of graphic will be depreciated with DocBook 5.0, plus it doesn't
allow for the use of an alt tag for lack of a better term.

I'm also starting a H-H section called "DocBook Tips and Tricks" to cover
some of these funky features.

Use this as an example:

<mediaobject>

  <imageobject>
   <imagedata fileref="figures/eiffeltower.eps" format="eps">
  </imageobject>

  <imageobject>
   <imagedata fileref="figures/eiffeltower.gif" format="gif">
  </imageobject>

  <textobject>
   <phrase>The Eiffel Tower</phrase>
  </textobject>

  <caption>
   <para>Designed by Gustave Eiffel in 1889, The Eiffel Tower is one of
    the most widely recognized buildings in the world.
   </para>
  </caption>

</mediaobject>

I have been having some trouble getting db2pdf to work, but somehow by hand
I could generate TeX then PS, then PDF.  This was late in the evening,
so I'll look at it some more tomorrow.

-Mark

Bill Brooks wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Poet/Joshua Drake wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Thu, 1 Jun 2000, Mark Komarinski wrote:
> >
> > <CITE>I've spent the afternoon trying to make TeX/DVI/PDF output from
> > <CITE>my HOWTO-HOWTO only to find I should be using .eps files instead
> > <CITE>of .jpg for TeX/DVI/PDF output.  Which leads me to the question:
> > [...rest deleted...]
> 
> On a related note, is there an example document in docbook format in the
> LDP repository that has screenshots or any other graphic figure in .eps or
> .jpg format? In preparing my guide, I'm using the comand-line DocBook
> tools from http://sourceware.cygnus.com/docbook-tools and I can't get
> them to produce a .pdf file from my docbook sources that include a .eps
> file in the following manner:
> 
> <FIGURE ID="screen01-fig" FLOAT="1">
> <TITLE>This is what the screen looks like</TITLE>
> <GRAPHIC FILEREF="images/screen01"  SCALE="60"></GRAPHIC>
> </FIGURE>
> 
> ...when I attempt to produce a .pdf file from with "db2pdf foo.sgml" I get
> the following:
> 
>  LaTeX Error: Unknown graphics extension: .eps.
> 
> ..even though there is a file called screen01.eps in the "images"
> subdirectory. No image shows up in the resulting .pdf file. What gives?
> Can someone point me at an existing DocBook project that has graphics in
> it (as well as the graphic files) that compiles to a .pdf successfully? Or
> do the jadetex-based .pdf file generation tools from cygnus just not work
> with images in the .sgml file?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Bill
> 
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