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Re: passivetext pdfxmltex and pdf imagedata
- From: Ian Castle <ian dot castle at coldcomfortfarm dot net>
- To: "Juan R. Migoya" <jmigoya at arrakis dot es>
- Cc: docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org, Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym at canada dot com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2002 18:04:16 +0100
- Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: passivetext pdfxmltex and pdf imagedata
- References: <m2wuv2i1nw.fsf@maya.dyndns.org> <3CC29307.E3AB22EA@arrakis.es>
ImageMagick also has a good range of conversion tools (not sure if you
can have these on Windows though - might work with cygwin).
You can set both bounding boxes and image density quite nicely.
convert image.eps image.epdf
convert -density 150 ....
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 11:23, Juan R. Migoya wrote:
> I create my "eps" files with Corel Draw and transform them with
> the "epstopdf" app with comes with my tex distribution. It works
> fine. Only you have not to include header picture in the postscript
> (it's a postscript output option from corel and other programs). Also,
> don't
> use floating foint bounding box size.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Regards,
>
> Juan R. Migoya
> SPAIN
>
>
> Gary Lawrence Murphy wrote:
> >
> > [snip]
> >
> > How do I crop PDF files generated from encapsulated postscript?
> >
> > I am using Ghostscript to generate PDF from my postscript
> > illustrations, but the inserted images are taking a full page of paper
> > space, which means the figures are all placed on a page by themselves
> > with the bottom few and side inches cropped off the image; a simple
> > diagram will be rendered at the bottom of the image PDF page by this
> > process, so including that image into a document means the small
> > diagram is pushed to the bottom of the page and chopped off at the
> > bottom. I figure I must be doing something wrong ;)
> >
> > I'm using Docbook 4.1.2 with the 1.50 XSLT stylesheets.
> >
> > --
> > Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@teledyn.com> TeleDynamics Communications Inc
> > Business Innovations Through Open Source Systems: http://www.teledyn.com
> > "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)