On 30 March 2010 17:22, Roy Britten <roy.brit...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 March 2010 16:21, Stephen Irons <stephen.ir...@taitradio.com> wrote: >> The original Topo50 TIFFs include legends, borders, etc. Presumably, the >> OP wants to cut the borders, create a single large image for the whole >> region, then divide it up into suitable pieces for printing on an A3 or >> A4 printer. > > Precisely. Well stated. > > Current status: > > Image Magick to crop and combine images. > ImageMagick (with -density) to convert to EPS > poster to split into pieces > ps2pdf to convert to an easily shareable format > > Currently the ps2pdf step is applying what looks like JPEG compression > to the images, so I need to look closely at the options there (I've > done it before, but *ages* ago and have forgotten all I ever knew) to > use no or lossless compression.
For the sake of the thread archive. There are several Linux / Unix PostScript to Portable Document Format converters. To whit:- PStill:- http://www.wizards.de/~frank/pstill.html ps2pdf which is part of the GhostScript package:- http://sourceforge.net/projects/ghostscript/ http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ pstopdf which is part of the TeX system http://www.tug.org/texlive/ ( The easiest way to get pstopdf is to install a _full_ TeX system ) Each one has its own different plusses and minusses. Deciding which is best for a particular purpose is left as an exercise for the reader. HTH -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
