[Tioga-users] Fwd: Converting PDF to EPS (KEN SHEN don't delete)

[Justin D. R. Steinfadt]

Thanks everyone for all the helpful advice.

I probably should have said this earlier, but I'm running Mac OS 
10.5.2.  This version of the Mac OS comes with pdf2ps which was giving 
me the problems I described earlier

However, I went and installed xpdf-tools from 
http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/xpdf-tools-3.dmg and now I have pdftops.

Running "pdftops -eps file.pdf" creates an EPS file that is perfectly 
indistinguishable from the original Tioga PDF and ready for insertion 
into LaTeX documents.

Problem solved.

-Justin


Taro Sato wrote:
> 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
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