[Tioga-users] Fwd: Converting PDF to EPS

[Sergey Astanin]

Fri, 07 Mar 2008 01:03:40 +0100, Vincent Fourmond <vincent.fourmond at 9online.fr>:
> Bill Paxton forwarded:
> >> *From: *"Justin D. R. Steinfadt" <jdrs at physics.ucsb.edu
> >> 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

Some time ago I settled on this script: http://pastebin.com/f3420e11c
which runs ghostscript in batch mode and uses -sDEVICE=epswrite

The result in gv looks worse than the original tioga-produced PDF in the
same gv. However, on print I cannot distinguish the two.

For me, pdftops -eps produces EPS with better aliased fonts when viewed
in gv, but the page size in gv is wrong (%%Bouniding Box seems to
be almost correct, %%HiResBoundingBox is missing).

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