>>At 6 meg, I am guessing this is not vector art for the most part.
>>EPS (and therfore PS) can hold JPEGed image data. I have done this by
>>saving as Acrobat out of Illustrator.  Then print PS out of Acrobat.  If
>>LaTex does not like these PS files, try printing the PS from a Unix version
>>of Acrobat.
>
>This is good stuff Britt.......I'm not leaving today until I've given all
>of it a shot!  Below is the response I got from queries to Los Alamos
>if you are interested.
>
>>AI frequently generates very inefficient postscript and the same information
>>can be conveyed in a file a 10th of the size with better graphics programs or
>>by bitmapping the AI generated figures. See http://xxx.lanl.gov/help/bitmap
>
>>gif, jpg, png are alternative formats for figures.
>
>Thanks so much.
>Jaynie
>

Jaynie,

I would be real interested in knowing what Los Alamos thinks is a "better
graphics program" for dealing with combining vector and bitmap art.  I
suspect they are thinking of UNIX programs that can't handle fonts
decently.  But I have had the same complaint around here, so any helpful
pointers on other programs they like would be worth following up.

Britt

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