Figure/photo angst
I’ve been working on revamping a manual that was written in InDesign (not whole-heartedly recommended) — which I changed to Microsoft Word (so that more people would be able to edit the document) — which I’m now converting to a LaTeX document. Want to see what it looks like? I’ve attached it, but it’s quite large (7.4 MB). Anyway, I’d like your comments or ideas. The Minnesota Stormwater Manual
If you’d like to see the way the manual looks right now, it’s located at the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency Stormwater Manual Web site.
Currently, I’ve invested the most time on Chapter 9. Formulas were fun, but unfortunately I won’t have many more of them to do. I was going to do the bibliography with bibtex via JabRef and things were looking great, but then I realized that for the sake of time, I had to cut my losses and leave the bibliographic references as they are, as static paragraphs. (I can always go back later and do the bibtex thing; it’s definitely the way to go if you’re creating your document from scratch.)
When I decided to do the figures in the manual, I changed all the figures (photos) to PNG files, but later realized that I should have done them in EPS format to make them work in the conversion to DVI. Unfortunately, as EPS files, I couldn’t do the pdflatex command in TeXnic, because EPS is incompatible. Soooo, after reading the directions, I converted all my figures once again — this time as PDF files. Works great.
