On Thu, 10 Apr 2014 11:21:35 -0400 "Full Name" <veurbu...@myway.com> wrote:
> I have a bunch of vector graphics (from Draw, Scribus and Origin) > that are included as eps files in my document. With the current > (2.0.6) version under WinXP making a pdf goes smoothly except for a > few problems with some of these pictures getting cut off at the > bottom. On Linux Mint though the vector graphics get converted to > pixel graphics of horrible quality in the pdf when running pdflatex. > Dvipdfm and ps2pdf also work under Windows but under Linux they throw > errors of a number being too large or of some pixel images (that are > tif files converted to eps, not the files mentioned before) being too > large (in inches). So I cannot test these methods. What do you think > is missing in the installation under Linux that is present in the > Windows one? Thank you. I have a Linux system which does not have these problems, though it is Gentoo, not Linux Mint. The problem with pdflatex might involve not having a full texlive installed. As far as I can tell the conversion is handled (at least in ps2pdf) by epstopdf, which is part of the dev-texlive/texlive-fontutils package. On my system LyX handles the tiff to PDF conversion with tiff2ps, which is part of the media-libs/tiff package. You may be missing this package (which may have a different name in Linux Mint). Les
