Make sure though that if you chose ImageMagic that you are getting results that you can live with. In many of my attempts to use it resulted in horrible outputs. I use something called Poppler
http://superuser.com/questions/185880/how-to-convert-a-pdf-document-to-png BTW. If you search for "convert pdf to png" you can find dozens of answers. ~Ben On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann < engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: > > Am 22.06.2014 17:38, schrieb Wolfgang Engelmann: > > > Am 22.06.2014 17:07, schrieb Christian W: > > Is there a way in Lyx to automatically convert all eps and pdf vector > graphics to PNG bitmap format? For printing, my publisher asked me to > provide a PDF file without vector graphics as this might cause some > problems. Instead they asked me to convert all vector graphics to PNG > format > with 600 dpi resolution. I am using pdflatex in Lyx to genreate the final > pdf document. > > Strange, that a publisher is apparently nowadays not able to do this > conversion himself > |convert -density 600 in.eps out.png > |Wolfgang > > p.S. > if you want to convert many in a go, look at > http://scott.sherrillmix.com/blog/programmer/converting-eps-to-png-easily/ > > where it says: > Converting many files at once is where ImageMagick really shines. The > mogrify command is probably the quickest option. For example, to convert > the files image01.eps, image02.eps and image03.eps to png, just use the > command mogrify -format png image*.eps. In one shot, it will create > image01.png, image02.png and image03.png. > > Unfortunately, recent version of Imagemagick seem to be treating eps to > png conversions oddly (see below) so mogrify isn't cutting it on my files. > If you have similar trouble (and you're on Unix or Mac or Cygwin), you can > just use a bit of Bash combined with the convert command to get around > the problem like this: > BASH: > > 1. for f in `ls *.eps`; do > 2. convert -density 100 $f -flatten ${f%.*}.png; > 3. done > > Wolfgang >
