[Tioga-users] Fwd: Converting PDF to EPS

[Taro Sato]

On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Sergey Astanin
<astanin at calvino.polito.it> wrote:
>  >
>  >   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).


This might be off the mark, but is that bounding box problem in eps
files something a script like fixbb can fix?

  http://www.gnuplot.info/scripts/files/fixbb

For me, the combo of "pdftops -eps" and "fixbb" produce eps files that
can be included perfectly in LaTeX.

Taro