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From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Convert eps to pdf
Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 12:02:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=BP1Pa-tVZ9uN0Y12qX-gOqN7xd3rcuaWooxY+@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201011221151.49732.alan.braslau@cea.fr>

On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 11:51, Alan BRASLAU wrote:
> 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.

1.) ps2pdf -dEPSCrop file.eps file.pdf

On some systems you have "epstopdf".

2.) gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop \
    -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=file.pdf file.ps

I use the same command for conversion into bitmap figures:
    gs -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop \
    -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -r500 \
    -sDEVICE=pngalpha -sOutputFile=file.png file.ps

Usually the conversion from PDF to EPS is slightly problematic for (to
me) unknow reason.

Mojca
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-22 11:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-22 10:51 Alan BRASLAU
2010-11-22 11:02 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2010-11-22 15:38   ` Siep Kroonenberg

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