Re: input graphics in amstex

On Sat, Sep 10, 2016 at 2:12 PM, James Ridley <[email protected]>
wrote:

> I am running some old files under amstex and amsppt.sty and would like to
> include some figures. Most of my old figures were in .eps format.
>
> My old commands don't work. Please can someone tell me what format the
> figures must be in and what command I must use to import them.


Not much to go here, but I can suggest several approaches:

If you are planning a journal submission, AMS-TeX has been replaced by
http://www.ams.org/publications/authors/tex/amslatex.  You would need to
convert your documents to LaTeX.  If you make extensive use of your own
macros this could be a big job.

Depending on the fonts used in your old documents you may encounter
problems with current TeX distributions.  One workaround is to rasterize
EPS figures and import them as images.   It is also possible to convert
fonts in EPS files to outline paths.  Rasterizing fonts tends to look good
on a screen but needs a high resolution for typesetting.  Outlined fonts
have poor screen quality (no hinting) but work well for typeset output.

https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/248390/can-i-use-latex-packages-from-ctan-in-plain-tex
--
I have had success with older documents replacing macros to
include eps fgures with \includegraphics from the latex graphix package.


> Thank you
>
> James Ridley
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