• General LaTeX tips
• Writing letters on the department letterhead
  • The guide is at http://www.cs.ubc.ca/local/computing/software/latex/local-guide/node20.shtml
  • The source is at /cs/local/generic/share/texmf/tex/latex/contrib/ubc/cs/cs-letterhead
• Saving Visio files as EPS to put in LaTeX:
  • From Visio do File-> Print. Chose the best printer available.
    • choose print to file. Say the file is "foo.ps"
    • in a multi-page document, choose print range = "current page"
    • click on "properties" of the printer, then click advanced
      • under "graphic" change "print quality" to the highest dpi you can
      • under "Document Options->Postscript Options" set "Postscript Output Option" to "Encapsulated PostScript" Click "ok" until it prints. On the current document, it'll complain that the page size is wrong. Ignore that.
  • At this point you have a ps file. Yes, I know, we said to save as EPS, but it gets the bounding box and some other details wrong.
  • Open foo.ps in Ghostview. Important: this must be a fairly recent version of ghostview; the one on the cs.ubc.ca linux machines is not recent enough.
    • Choose File->PS to EPS.
    • Make sure that "automatically calculate bounding box" is selected.
    • Say you've read the help (trust me, it's only relevant if it goes wrong).
    • click "yes" and save as a file.
  • Voila! You have an EPS file that should work with LaTeX and appear (approximately) correctly in ghostview.
  • Caveat: Irritatingly, the "right" way to do this seems to change pretty often, so you may someday discover that it needs to be re-adjusted.

-- RachelPottinger - 11 Apr 2005