[Gllug] LateX/EPS/PS experts?

[Dan Kolb]

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On Tuesday 15 Jan 2002 14:07 pm, Anthony Leung wrote:
> I have a friend who has spent what seems like the last three weeks of
> his life trying to figure out how to insert graphs that he plotted in
> Excel into a Latex report write-up: he thought he may as well take the
> opportunity to learn how to use Latex as he aims to go into Physics
> research and this would be a good skill to it.

It's a good idea - here in Oxford the Physics department prefers all their 
practical writeups/accounts to be typeset in LaTeX. Plus it's fairly easy to 
use once you get to grips with some basic commands.

> Anyway, yes, to the point, Excel Graphs into Latex.
> He seems to have nailed it down to trying to convert a gif/jpg that
> Excel can export to in the form of a html file into an eps or ps file.
> Obviously one could also take screenshots of the graphs and convert them
> that way, but having no clue how to convert them, would be grateful for
> any solutions offered-if I can't get them here then I don't know where I
> would : )

If you're running Windows, have a look at Paintshop Pro - that seems (at 
least it used) to support almost every graphics format out there. If you copy 
the gif/jpg files to a Linux system, look at the 'gif2epsn'. For jpegs, it 
seems to be a bit more difficult - there only seems to be a 'jpegtopnm' 
utility, so then you have to convert from pnm to (e)ps. Alternatively, if you 
load the file into the Gimp, you should be able to export it or save it as an 
EPS.

HTH

Dan
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