Re: Repeatedly including an EPS file

[Jeff Kingston]

On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > > Can anyone advise a technique for defining the logo once and
> > > referencing it "symbolically".
> >
> > See Adobe Technote #5144 "Using EPS Files in PostScript Language Forms"
> >
> >     http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/pdfs/tn/5144.pdf
> 
> Ok, this seems interesting, so I've given it a try....

I've implemented this, following the Adobe Technote, for the next release
as a core feature of Lout.  You put

    @IncludeGraphicRepeated { su_crest.eps }

at the start of the document but otherwise use @IncludeGraphic as
usual.  This line has no effect on the appearance of the document,
but it makes the output shorter when @IncludeGraphic { su_crest.eps }
appears repeatedly.  Lout takes care of all the issues described in
Uwe's mail: the bounding box, the string size, etc.

Thanks to Uwe for the pioneer work that made it feasible for me to
add this feature in a few hours' work.

Jeff Kingston