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Using pdflatex won't work.
Authored by: rhetland on Feb 20, '03 01:50:29PM

There have been a few suggestions to use pdflatex, which directly produces a pdf document. There is a problem with this: pdflatex will always produce a paper size document. This may be modified in the preamble, but it will be hard to get a page that exactly fits any equation.

epstopdf produces an 'encapsulated' pdf file, which is exactly what is wanted here. Note that running epstopdf could easily be appended to the script included.

I suggest using convert (an ImageMagik tool) to convert the eps to a gif file. This way, you can change the background to transparent, and your equation will look like the other text. An example of using convert (the -den flag sets the sampling in dpi):

convert -den 300 -transparency white equation.eps equation.gif



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