Graphics, Figures & Tables

centguy · Post by **centguy** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 5:50 am

There is one item in my wish list that is to use \includegraphics to include a compressed file (especially PNG format) and view them using XDVI without using PDFLaTeX.

The reason is that XDVI seems much faster than Acroread.

Are XDVI developers working towards handling files other than EPS graphic files ?

Thanks!

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Post by **localghost** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 10:39 am

centguy wrote:There is one item in my wish list that is to use \includegraphics to include a compressed file (especially PNG format) and view them using XDVI without using PDFLaTeX. […]

The DVI file format and PNG picture format don't go together. However, you can convert PNG to EPS. But I consider that not recommendable.

centguy wrote:The reason is that XDVI seems much faster than Acroread. […]

There are several other PDF viewers like XPDF. Should be as fast and minimal as XDVI.

centguy wrote:Are XDVI developers working towards handling files other than EPS graphic files?

I don't think they ever will.

Thorsten

centguy · Post by **centguy** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 5:06 pm

I appreciate your reply.

At least I don't keep hoping that xdvi will be able to deal with
compressed graphic files one day!

Thanks!

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