"Full Name" <veurbu...@myway.com> writes:

> I have a bunch of vector graphics (from Draw, Scribus and Origin) that
> are included as eps files in my document. With the current (2.0.6)
> version under WinXP making a pdf goes smoothly except for a few
> problems with some of these pictures getting cut off at the bottom. On
> Linux Mint though the vector graphics get converted to pixel graphics
> of horrible quality in the pdf when running pdflatex. Dvipdfm and

Tsis all depends on the tools for graphic conversion installed. If you
specify the type of vector format, one could have a better idea what is
possibly missing o=under Linux Mint.

> ps2pdf also work under Windows but under Linux they throw errors of a
> number being too large or of some pixel images (that are tif files
> converted to eps, not the files mentioned before) being too large (in
> inches). So I cannot test these methods.

Just to clarify - and likely you know it - tif is not a vector format
but a bitmap format.

Cheers,

Rainer

> What do you think is missing in the installation under Linux that is present 
> in the Windows one?
> Thank you.

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