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Re: Images and pdf again
Ian Castle <bb+lists.docbook-apps@LOOKSystems.co.uk> writes:
> > I have tried to use the ImageMagic tool myself, but I was not able to
> > get the right combination of options to the convert program. So, what
> > I do is convert images (GIF or PNG) to eps, by using convert. Then I
> > use a epstopng perl-script, which is based on the epstopdf script made
> > by Sebastian Rahtz, et al. This writes the PNG files in the correct
> > resolution.
> >
>
> [...]
>
> Am I missing something? I use ImageMagick to convert with
>
> convert file.eps file.epdf
> mv file.epdf file.pdf
>
> Does this loose information? Everything seems OK as far as I can
> tell....
Well, I use ImageMagick-4.2.9-3 and GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13).
To convert postscript, I use the epstopdf (for vector images) or
epstopng ( for bitmaps ). epstopng is a slightly modified version of
epstopdf, which uses -sDEVICE=png256 and "-r<a>x<b>" to set the DPI.
So, to include a bitmap in 150 DPI in pdfjadetex, I use the following
commands:
$ convert -density 150 dx_lang.png dx_lang-conv.eps
$ epstopng --dpi 150 dx_lang-conv.eps
This gives me a dx_lang-conv.png file that I include in the SGML
source document. Works fine for us. I think that Camille has some
problems using ImageMagick 5.
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