images in Docbook with Red Hat 6.2

Eric Bischoff ebisch@cybercable.tm.fr
Wed Dec 27 06:36:00 GMT 2000


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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