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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