Makefile for LaTeX

Sometimes it is very useful to have standardized ways to compile documents. I use vim to edit LaTeX source, and I was looking for makefile for LaTeX for a while, when I found this project:

http://code.google.com/p/latex-makefile/downloads/detail?name=latex-makefile-2.2.0.tar.gz

Simply copy the Makefile in the directory on your linux system and type

$make

 Works perfectly for me for creating the pdf from the surce.

How to convert all eps files to pdf in a directory

If you just want to convert a single file, you can use epstopdf <file>
as described here

Sometimes I need to convert all the eps files to pdf, for instance because I use latexpdf and I have all the images in eps. Here is a short linux bash script that does the job.

#/usr/bin/bash
for file in *.eps
do
  epstopdf $file
done

This I have in a script file in the path. Don't forget to install the ghostscript package to be able to use epstopdf command.

Or another solution is using the find command:

 $ find . -name "*.eps" -exec epstopdf {} \;

as described in  http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/using-multiple-epstopdf-command-854618/

How to use .tiff figures in MATLAB

Well, I was digging deep, and this issue does not seem to be solved :(
The best thing to do is to use png, pdf or eps instead.
When using linux the imagemagick package can be used for example as

$ convert myfile.tif myfile.pdf