If I were you, I think I would investigate conversion to svg further. pstoedit (www.pstoedit.net) has a shareware plugin for convertion .eps to svg, but I don't know how good it is. There might exist other packages that do the same (let me know if you find any!). Also the newest Adobe Illustrator (8.0 or 9.0) can save as svg, but there might be restrictions on what .eps format it supports (like you said, just using the preview picture).
I don't think it's possible to embed pdf directly into another pdf document. It *might* be possible to support eps directly with fop by using pdf xobjects (not quite sure here, but I think I remember somthing about that from the pdf spec), but then the pdf document would have to be printed on a postscript printer to show the figures. Tore > -----Original Message----- > From: Bill Lawrence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 15:52 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: Alternative to SVG > > > There are several reasons for not converting the .eps graphics to a > bitmapped format: > > 1) These illustrations (and we have literally thousands of them) are > technical illustrations that require very clear printed output. Most > conversion software that I'm familiar with simply grabs the tiff preview > embedded in the .eps file and converts that to .gif or .jpg. This is > sufficient for web use, but not for printing. > > 2) Given that we have thousands of these drawings, I fear that they would > cause the size of the .pdf files to grow to be very large. We intend to > ship .pdf files on CD to our customers. We're talking about a > set of books > that comprises around 10,000 pages. > > Regards, > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 9:40 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Alternative to SVG > > > > Why not convert eps to gif/jpg and then embed gifs/jpgs into the document? > > > > > > Bill Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 10/30/2001 09:35:50 AM > > Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: > > Subject: Alternative to SVG > > We're evaluating FOP as an alternative to our current XML publishing > softtware, and have discovered that the biggest obstacle is our large set > of > legacy .eps graphics. Apparently, FOP only supposrts SVG for vector > graphics. > > We can batch convert our .eps files into .pdf, which leads me to the > following question: Is there a way to embed a .pdf file within the fo > file, > and have FOP process this correctly in the final resultant .pdf file? > > Thanks in advance, > > Bill Lawrence > > __________ANSYS, Inc. - Dominating Engineering Simulation___________ > Bill Lawrence > Senior Tools Specialist > 275 Technology Drive > Canonsburg, PA 15317 > Ph: 724.514.2973 > _________________________________________________________ > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
