Re: [Groff] multiple EPS images placed on a page

[Robert Thorsby]

On 2006.11.08 15:11 Dean Allen Provins wrote:
> I need to place multiple EPS files across and down a
> large page (A0 or E size).
>
> OpenOffice presentation mode works, but it is easy to
> confuse files when placing them, resulting in missed
> or duplicate images.  Groff provides a facility to place
> only 3 across and several rows down on a standard
> page, although it is less likely that files will be missed
> or duplicated.
>
> Do any readers have suggestions for placing a large
> number of same-sized EPS files on a large sheet in
> some (preferably) non-manual way. Ideally, I'd like
> to feed a list of EPS filenames to some process, and
> have them placed with little intervention.

I do this (using groff primitives, PSPIC and tbl) by first placing each 
image in a diversion and then placing each diversion into a table that 
has no rules. This results in something like the results of a Google 
image search.

The process is automated in a shell script, even to the extent that if 
the final row of images is less than the number of columns of the 
invisible table then only the central columns are populated. In essence 
the shell script is primarily an awk script that runs a loop -- my 
script spits out an image gallery.

Please see the mailing list archives "PSPIC in Tables and Nested 
Tables" in mid June 2006 for a problem I encountered when using PSPIC 
in tables, and Werner's solution.

HTH,
Robert Thorsby