[Paraview] Paraview output in a latex document

[Marcus D. Hanwell]

On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:13 PM, marco restelli <mrestelli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Andy, Kenneth, Hanwell, burlen,
>   thank you for the quick and detailed replies!
>
> On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 9:40 PM, burlen <burlen.loring at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Any specific reason you prefer eps files? PV is only going to give you
> > raster images, so eps isn't an advantage as far as I can tell.
>
> I need the picture both for reports/papers and for prosper
> presentations; in particular, prosper is incompatible with pdflatex,
> so I tend to prefer eps figures. Then I first produce dvi files and
> then convert them to pdf.
>

You might consider  LaTeX beamer, I have had great results with it and it
uses pdflatex.

http://bitbucket.org/rivanvx/beamer/wiki/Home

>
> Based on your suggestions, I get good results by the following:
> 1) take the screeshot as a png file (at high resolution)
> 2) convert it to eps with imagemagick
> 3) include the eps figure in the latex file (no pdflatex)
> 4) convert the resulting dvi document to pdf.
> One thing that I didn't notice at first is that, even though the eps
> picture seems to have a very low quality, the final pdf document is
> nice.
>

Seems like a reasonable workflow if you need to stick with prosper.

Marcus
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