Re: [Texmacs-dev] [TeXmacs] Problems with .fig figures

[David E. Miller]

Hi Javier,

I found your issue interesting because I have just recently completed an 
article (using TeXmacs of course) about the issues involved with 
including images in TeXmacs documents by insertion or linking. I am not 
sure what the best way would be to ensure this is disseminated to the 
TeXmacs users and developers that are interested in my experience and 
recommendations regarding this issue.

So, for any TeXmacs users or developers of the mailing lists that are 
receiving this reply message, if you wish me to send you a PDF copy of 
this article about the issues of image TeXmacs inclusion, please reply 
to me from this email message. The article discusses the issues involved 
with image inclusion as well as a recommended workflow for this purpose 
as well as some useful background information. It applies to almost all 
of the main images formats that may be of interest.

Best wishes.

David E. Miller

On 4/8/2013 7:54 AM, Javier Arántegui wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I need to work on a number of documents I created several years ago. The last 
> time I edited them it was on 2010. These documents have a mixture of figures, 
> most of them are .eps created using Inkscape and .fig created using the old and 
> reliable xfig.
>
> It seems that there are a lot of problems with .fig figures (images not 
> showing, size changes). I'm using TeXmacs 1.0.7.19 for Mac. My machine runs Mac 
> OS 10.8.3. I have a few questions:
>
> a) Older versions of TeXmacs have the same problem? I could work with an older 
> version. I tried to install TeXmacs using Fink but it seems that there is a 
> problem and it doesn't install.
>
> b) For years I used the pre-QT version and one useful thing was reading the 
> messages on the console. Sometimes your learnt what the problem was (maybe 
> something was missing…). Is there a console or something where I could look for 
> that information? I looked for it in the Console.app, but nothing seems to be 
> there.
>
> c) Has the Linux version the same problems with .fig files? I'm ready to create 
> a virtual machine, install Ubuntu and use that until a new version is released.
>
> Thanks for your kind help,
>
> Javier
>
>
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