[xep-support] Re: eps into pdfs...options?

Earl Hood earl at earlhood.com
Thu Aug 14 12:33:27 PDT 2014


On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 2:25 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:

> 1) Any advice / best options for converting eps files to make them
> renderable to PDF? (ghostscript vs pstoedit, vs uniconverter vs ...?)
>
> I have had some success with EPS to PDF via Ghostscript but have not tested
> or run other products. Maybe Imagemagick would also do this.

Note, avoid the ImageMagick route since it will cause the EPS to become
rasterized.  If you are okay with that, make sure to instruct EPS to
convert at an acceptable resolution.

You can script with ghostscript to convert to EPS directly to PDF,
preserving the vector nature of the graphic:

<https://stackoverflow.com/questions/785436/ghostscript-command-line-parameters-to-convert-eps-to-pdf>

--ewh

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