I recommend (disclaimer, I wrote them both) either of the pstool or the auto-pst-pdf packages. The latter is more useful when you have other PSTricks material; pstool is better when you only have psfrag material only. (One day I'd like to extend pstool to handle both cases.)
They both use the -shell-escape feature to process the psfrag graphics separately before inserting them into the document.
Objectives and constraints
- Extracting all EPS images imported in the main input file without modifying the main input file heavily.
- Converting each of imported EPS images to PDF one and save it with its original file name.
Assumption
For the sake of best practice, I assume that you put all of your EPS images in a sub directory called Images. It means that the directory structure is defined as follows.
other parents/project/Images/
other parents/project/main.tex
other parents/project/myextractor.sty
You have to follow this convention as the remaining code uses this structure. Of course you can change this directory structure but you also need to modify the code a bit (not much). main.tex and myextractor.sty will be discussed shortly.
You are using Windows. If you are non-Windows users, please disabled the cleaning code mentioned in myextractor.sty.
You know that you must compile the main.tex with
latex -shell-escape main
dvips main
ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages#/None main.ps
Notes: For non-Windows users, replace # with =.
Step 1
Create a package called myextractor.sty as follows. Save it as mentioned in the directory structure above.
% myextractor.sty
\NeedsTeXFormat{LaTeX2e}[1994/06/01]
\ProvidesPackage{myextractor}[2013/10/09 v0.01 LaTeX package for my own purpose]
\RequirePackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents*}{template.tex}
\documentclass[preview,border=0pt,graphics]{standalone}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\graphicspath{{Images/}}
% Active the following code (between \makeatletter and \makeatother)
% if you want to cancel the effect of
% width, height and/or scale defined in \includegraphics
%\makeatletter
%\define@key{Gin}{width}{}
%\define@key{Gin}{scale}{}
%\define@key{Gin}{height}{}
%\makeatother
\let\ea\expandafter
\begin{document}
%\edef\z{\noexpand\includegraphics[\varone]{\vartwo}}\z
\ea\includegraphics\ea[\varone]{\vartwo}
\end{document}
\end{filecontents*}
\RequirePackage{graphicx}
\RequirePackage{pgffor}
\let\temp\includegraphics
\renewcommand\includegraphics[2][]{%
\temp[#1]{#2}%
\immediate\write18{latex -jobname=#2 -output-directory=Images \unexpanded{"\def\varone{#1} \def\vartwo{#2} \input{template}"} && cd Images && dvips #2 && ps2pdf -dAutoRotatePages=/None #2.ps}%
% disable the following if you are not Windows users.
\foreach \ext in {dvi, ps, log, aux}{\immediate\write18{cd Images && cmd /c del #2.\ext}}%
}
\endinput
Read the comments given in the code carefully. They are as follows.
% Active the following code (between \makeatletter and \makeatother)
% if you want to cancel the effect of
% width, height and/or scale defined in \includegraphics
%\makeatletter
%\define@key{Gin}{width}{}
%\define@key{Gin}{scale}{}
%\define@key{Gin}{height}{}
%\makeatother
and
% disable the following if you are not Windows users.
\foreach \ext in {dvi, ps, log, aux}{\immediate\write18{cd Images && cmd /c del #2.\ext}}%
Step 2
Modify your main.tex as follows
% main.tex
\documentclass{book}
%\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{myextractor}% automatically load graphicx
\graphicspath{{Images/}}
\begin{document}
\chapter{A}
\begin{figure}[hbtp]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=.5]{A}
\caption{A}
\label{fig:A}
\end{figure}
A \ldots
\chapter{B}
\begin{figure}[hbtp]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=.75]{B}
\caption{B}
\label{fig:B}
\end{figure}
B \ldots
\chapter{B}
\begin{figure}[hbtp]
\centering
\includegraphics[scale=1]{C}
\caption{C}
\label{fig:C}
\end{figure}
C \ldots
\end{document}
The important notes are
%\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{myextractor}% automatically load graphicx
\graphicspath{{Images/}}
- Load
myextractor package before graphicx to prevent graphicx overrides myextractor definition. As myextractor loads graphicx internally, you actually can disable graphicx in main.tex.
\graphicspath must be specified as given above.
Step 3
Compile main.tex with latex-dvips-ps2pdf explained above. Afterwards, check Images folder, you will find a PDF version for each EPS image. Done!
Best Answer
No
pdffragas you learned. I suggest the following "solution":psfragto insert the appropiate labels and fonts, and use it to include all yourepsfigures. Use alsopreviewpackage which will produce a document with a single figure per page, and with a page size fitted to the figure size.latex->dvipspdf. Let say that the result is the filemyfigures.pdf\includegraphics[page=n]{myfigures.pdf}, beingn1, 2, 3... for each figure.Alternatively, and I'm not joking, you may consider using TikZ to redo all your figures, specially if they are few and simple.