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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks, Kevin, that -dEPSCrop option
(from the link you included) was what I was missing. I'd tried
various other options (like -dUseArtBox) which had seemed to work
for properly cropping rendering to raster format, I'd not hit on
the right combination.<br>
<br>
Eric<br>
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On 08/14/2014 03:25 PM, Kevin Brown wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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below for my input.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Xep-support [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com">mailto:xep-support-bounces@renderx.com</a>] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Eric J. Schwarzenbach<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, August 14, 2014 11:19 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> RenderX Community Support List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [xep-support] eps into pdfs...options?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<br>
<br>
This email is kind of long, so I want to preface it with a
short list of the questions I'm looking for answers to or
advice regarding. <br>
<br>
1) Any advice / best options for converting eps files to make
them renderable to PDF? (ghostscript vs pstoedit, vs
uniconverter vs ...?)<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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2) If I convert the eps to pdf, to embed that pdf image during
xep rendering, is there any way to make xep use the image
bounding box of the image instead of the page size as the
image bounding box?<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">To
this I am bit confused. When you convert the EPS to PDF,
you should do it so that the EPS image *<b>is</b>* the PDF
page size. I am not a ghostscript expert but at one time I
did do this. I think it is a matter of setting the correct
flags to crop the EPS to the bounding box size and then
setting the paper size to that same size.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14595521/how-to-set-the-physical-size-of-pdf-pages-with-ghostscript">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14595521/how-to-set-the-physical-size-of-pdf-pages-with-ghostscript</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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3) Am I likely to have more difficulty getting an exact
rendering, converting to SVG as opposed to PDF (or to a raster
format)?<span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Well,
that would I guess depend on the quality of the EPS to SVG
conversion. That being said, if you get excellent results
like this then I would use SVG because it works in all
output.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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4) Any other approaches I'm missing?<br>
<br>
If anyone has advice relevant to any of these items, I'd much
appreciate hearing it (and there's additional relevant details
below).<br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
Eric<br>
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We've been struggling with the need to use eps files in pdf
renderings. A client of ours has a massive quantity of hi res
art which they've produced in illustrator and have saved as
eps for sending to printers and use in other systems. While
they want to move to svg in the long run, it will be a while
before they will be able convert / re-export all these files
and make sure they still look right. They've been burned
before by conversions that don't render things quite the same
way, mucking up font positioning and such.<br>
<br>
My understanding is that xep cannot handle eps files when
rendering to pdf, or rather it only uses the embedded preview
tif, which in this client's case is not only poor quality, but
causes the xep rendering to fail catastrophically with an
"alpha channel unsupported" error. Re-exporting all their art
with better tiffs is not really an option either.<br>
<br>
So we're looking at conversion options. Ghostscript seems to
do a pretty good job of rendering to raster formats, so this
at least is a fallback for us, but they would really like to
have resolution independent graphics in their pdfs.
Ghostscript also seems to offer a ton of rendering options
including distiller options, so I would guess we can replicate
whatever options the client needs to duplicate the image
rendering they get with whatever version of illustrator they
generated these with. (Actually using distiller might be
another fall back.)<br>
<br>
So converting to PDF might be an option, as ghostscript seems
to also produce a reasonable pdf. However the PDF seems to
want to be a page, and we really need these to be the proper
image size of each individual image. It's not clear to me if
there is a way to do a ghostscript conversions where the page
size is determined by the image dimensions. Alternately it's
not clear to me if the bounding box of the image is preserved
in the PDF and if so, whether that is something renderx can be
made to use. In initial experiments renderx seems to use the
page size as the bounding box of the image.<br>
<br>
Converting to SVG is another possibility. I've been playing
with pstoedit and can get svgs out of that, though it does not
seem to have much in the way of eps rendering options. I
started looking at uniconverter also, and if I can ever figure
out how to install their plugin for svg support that might be
another option. <br>
<br>
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