From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/63817 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan BRASLAU Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Convert eps to pdf Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:51:49 +0100 Organization: CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC Message-ID: <201011221151.49732.alan.braslau@cea.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290423175 22357 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2010 10:52:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 10:52:55 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Nov 22 11:52:48 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PKU0t-0000z8-PT for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48C22CA86F; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:47 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id FtFNtSuHweoF; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8E855CA868; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBA4CA868 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:43 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id CiohOlnH+THx for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FB2CCA863 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from cirse-out.extra.cea.fr (cirse-out.extra.cea.fr [132.166.172.106]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id oAMAqV4d007790 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:32 +0100 Original-Received: from epeire1.extra.cea.fr (epeire1.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.31]) by cirse.extra.cea.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2/CEAnet-Internet-out-2.0) with ESMTP id oAMAqVZB008592 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:31 +0100 Original-Received: from orpin2.extra.cea.fr (orpin2.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.5]) by epeire1.extra.cea.fr (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id oAMAqAgQ007964 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:10 +0100 (envelope-from alan.braslau@cea.fr) Original-Received: from iram-ha-003840.localnet (iram-ha-003840.extra.cea.fr [132.166.25.152]) by orpin2.extra.cea.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/CEAnet-Intranet-out-1.1) with ESMTP id oAMAqAHZ012889 for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2010 11:52:10 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.32; KDE/4.4.5; x86_64; ; ) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=132.166.172.106; country=FR; region=A3; city=Gif-sur-yvette; latitude=48.6833; longitude=2.1333; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=48.6833,2.1333&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0bDyaQvlj - 7e2a5fab27ee - 20101122 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:63817 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________