Lateχ

Producing .eps Files in Photoshop For Use With Lateχ

You can use Adobe Photoshop to save images as .eps (encapsulated PostScript) format, which can be used in Lateχ documents but there are bounding box issues. To avoid this, you need to specify none in the Preview drop down menu in the prompt that comes up when you go to save a file as an .eps. Apart from that required tweak, it should work fine!


JAlbum

Comments in SVEx Skin

To get comments to show up in the SVEx skin, make sure you select Extract Photographic Data (EXIF) and in comment sources check EXIF Image Desc, both in the Advanced tab. Then, go to Edit on the main page and open index.htt in your text editor of choice. Within the <CAPTION> tag, insert:

<ja:if exists="comment">$comment</ja:if>

where you want the comment to appear amongst the EXIF data. You can also remove and add EXIF data as you choose - the variable names are listed on the JAlbum homepage in the section on how to create and edit skins. This takes the comments you have inserted under the Edit tab (using a right click - Properties on the images) and displays them amongst the other EXIF data.


Issues With The Latest Flash Plugin for SVEx Skin

You'll find that existing albums made with the SVEx skin won't work with the latest Flash plugin (9,0,16,0) regardless of browser. It tells you you need to download Flash, even though you are correctly running the latest version.

To fix this, you simply need to alter the Flash detection script, flash_detect.js in the Res folder of the skin (which can be found by clicking on the Edit button on the main page of JAlbum). Simply replace line 14 with:

var latestFlashVersion = 9;

It was previously set to 8, but the latest Flash version is 9. Problem solved!