Re: Lout and including EPS figures

[Peter Samuel]

Tessa Lau writes:
 > 
 > I've always had a problem with the error messages lout produces when
 > it can't place figures in the available space on the page.  I do a lot
 > of technical reports using the @Report style, and typically import
 > 5-10 drawings per 10-page document.  I do the drawings with xfig,
 > export as EPS, and use @IncludeGraphic to include these in my lout
 > document.  However, I almost always get errors like
 > 
 > lout file "lab3.l":
 >      5,1: this component of @BeginFigures did not fit into its nearest target
 >      5,1: 1.3c object too high for 0.5c space; @VScale inserted
 > 
 > which usually means some of my text is going to be compressed, and
 > (even more helpful)
 > 
 > lout file "lab3.l":
 >      5,1: this component of @BeginFigures did not fit into its nearest target
 >      5,1: 1.3c object too high for -0.0c space; @VScale inserted
 >      5,1: size constraint 57.790c,27.937c,57.790c broken by 0.000c,28.261c
 >      5,1: object deleted (it cannot be scaled vertically)
 > 
 > In either case I don't know which figure lout is having trouble
 > placing.  I usually fix this by moving my figures around randomly
 > until lout stops complaining.  I'd like to at least hear which figure
 > lout decided to delete in the second example; line 5 column 1 only
 > refers to the "@Report" line at the beginning of the document.
 > 
 > Are there any other tips on getting lout and EPS to work together?
 > 
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 > 

I too sometimes have these problems. I either scale the output of the
EPS from xfig, or my prefered option is to use a scale operator within
lout vis:

    @CD 0.75 @Scale @IncludeGraphic circuit.eps

This will centre display the figure at 75% of both horizontal and
vertical dimensions.

I'm also using the report style within this document and it seems to
work very well for me.

Hope this helps.

Regards
Peter
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