[Tioga-users] Fwd: Converting PDF to EPS

[Taro Sato]

On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Bill Paxton <paxton at kitp.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
> 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.


Hi there -- I used

  $ pdftops -eps filename.pdf

with success as well.  (pdftops is in the xpdf-utils in Debian; I'm
not sure in other distros).  FYI, in my box:

  $ pdftops -v
  pdftops version 3.01
  Copyright 1996-2005 Glyph & Cog, LLC

Some PDF specific features (like transparency) will get lost but
pdftops worked like a charm for me...

Taro