DocumentEditingTips < Faculty

   * Writing letters on the department letterhead
      * The guide is at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/computing/software/latex/local-guide/node20.shtml
      * The source is at /cs/local/generic/share/texmf/tex/latex/contrib/ubc/cs/cs-letterhead
   * Saving Visio files as EPS to put in !LaTeX:
      * From Visio do File-> Print.  Chose the best printer available.
         * choose print to file. Say the file is "foo.ps"
         * in a multi-page document, choose print range = "current page"
         * click on "properties" of the printer, then click advanced
            * under "graphic" change "print quality" to the highest dpi you can
            * under "Document Options->Postscript Options" set "Postscript Output Option" to "Encapsulated !PostScript" Click "ok" until it prints.  On the current document, it'll complain that the page size is wrong.  Ignore that.
      *  At this point you have a ps file. Yes, I know, we said to save as EPS, but it gets the bounding box and some other details wrong.
      * Open foo.ps in Ghostview.  Important: this must be a fairly recent version of ghostview; the one on the cs.ubc.ca linux machines is not recent enough.
         * Choose File->PS to EPS.
         * Make sure that "automatically calculate bounding box" is selected.
         * Say you've read the help (trust me, it's only relevant if it goes wrong).
         * click "yes" and save as a file.
      * Voila!  You have an EPS file that should work with !LaTeX and appear (approximately) correctly in ghostview.
      * Caveat: Irritatingly, the "right" way to do this seems to change pretty often, so you may someday discover that it needs to be re-adjusted.



-- Main.RachelPottinger - 11 Apr 2005
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