Re: [Groff] Inserting/importing jpeg photos into groff text?

[Miklos Somogyi]

On 28/03/2006, at 6:06 AM, Clarke Echols wrote:

> I need to place a jpeg photo inside a groff document.  I am running
> cygwin on Windows 98, and there is no indication that the convert
> utility is available in the Cygwin packages; at least none that I
> can find...  Hence, no jpeg2ps is accessible, as nearly as I can
> determine.
>
>
> Is there an easy way to get jpeg photos into a groff document that
> I have overlooked?  It appears to me that this is a problem I'm going
> to be encountering in the future as well as now, and it would be
> nice to have a practical, efficient, and inexpensive solution.

If you have access to a Mac, Graphic Converter (included in the system) 
is
a good solution to convert jpeg to eps as an ascii-hex image file.
You can also down-sample photographs to a resolution
more appropriate for a smaller pic in your groff and you can control
the compression/quality as well (further reduction in file sizes).

If I remember well, I did jpeg to ascii85 conversions a few years ago 
with
AFPL GhostScript 8.0 that (or a newer version) could be available on a 
PC
platform too.

Miklos