From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Convert eps to pdf
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:51:49 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201011221151.49732.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
ConTeXt mkiv will take an encapsulated postscript (eps) file through
\externalfigure [myfigure.eps]
and creates a (compressed) pdf version as m_k_i_v_myfigure.pdf
that conserves the vectorial components of the eps file.
Other standard conversion tools, notably those based on ghostscript,
generally create a bitmap image with pretty horrible results.
The vectorial conversion must be fully trivial, but I am ignorant
of the tools available for this manipulation (other than ConTeXt!),
as well as the inverse (pdf->eps) conversion. Perhaps I am simply
missing some simple (ghostscript, pstoedit, ...) option.
I am posting this question to the ConTeXt mailing list
as I am sure that someone can give a trivial answer,
but also to indicate to those who may ignore this robust
feature of ConTeXt.
Also, \externalfigure is a very powerful macro that would justify
more complete documentation in the revised reference manual.
Alan
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2010-11-22 10:51 Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2010-11-22 11:02 ` Mojca Miklavec
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