## MikTex and WinEdt for Windows Systems

• WinEdt Home Page. WinEdt is a shareware editior which integrates very nicely with MikteX and yap. (Yap is a dvi previewer included with MikTeX.)

## OzTeX for Macs

• OzTeX Home Page. OzTex is an excellent Mac implementation, and comes with AlphaLite aTeX aware editor. You can also come to the lab and just pick up a copy of the "New OzTeX" folder.

## Inserting Postscript Pictures Locally

The file
epsftest from the OzTeX distribution shows how to use the epsf macros to insert an encapsulated postscript picture in plain tex or latex. This will work on the lab and Department linux machines. Basic usage is
```		\input epsf
```
to input the macros followed by
```		\epsfbox{filename.epsf}
```
to display the picture. One can also set the size, e.g.
```		\epsfxsize=72pt
\epsfysize=2.0in
```
or center the picture by enclosing in \centerline:
```		\centerline{\epsfbox{filename.epsf}}
```
Typical producers of encapsulated postscript include convert from the ImageMagick package on linux machines, Adobe programs like Illustrator and Photoshop as well as GraphicConverter (in the graphics subfolder of Mathlab Fileserver ) on lab Macintoshes. The latter also imbeds a pict image (which is a binary format, in contrast to normally ASCII postscript) for preview purposes on a Mac.

## Misc

The links below are out of date, but the main point is that simply using dvips followed by acrobat to produce pdf from tex/latex has a number of problems. Tools like pdftex and pdflatex should be used directly instead.

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