[Tioga-users] Fwd: Converting PDF to EPS

[Vincent Fourmond]

  Hello

Bill Paxton forwarded:
>> *From: *"Justin D. R. Steinfadt" <jdrs at physics.ucsb.edu
>> Hey Bill.
>>
>> I'm wondering if you have a better way of converting Tioga PDFs to EPS
>> files.  Right now I'm just using the command "convert file.pdf
>> file.eps" and the results are less than satisfactory.  The EPS figure
>> always comes out kind of blurry.

  If you have xpdf installed, the following should do the job:

  pdftops -eps -paper match file.pdf

  I'm not sure the -paper match bit is necessary. Apparently, pdf2ps
(from gostscript) also does the job with a correct bounding box:

  pdf2ps file.pdf file.eps

  I'm confused: the bit with pdftops does not work while I was sure it
worked last time I checked, and the second does work fine. That might
depend on the versions installed on your computer, though, so I'm
keeping both methods.

  Just for the record, convert works with bitmap images, so there's no
wonder why you don't like the output so much...

  Cheers,

	Vincent

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