I'm not a PDF expert, but here's a paragraph from a man page: epstopdf transforms the Encapsulated PostScript file epsfile so that it is guaranteed to start at the 0,0 coordinate, and it sets a page size exactly corresponding to the BoundingBox. This means that when Ghostscript renders it, the result needs no cropping, and the PDF Medi- aBox is correct. The result is piped to Ghostscript and a PDF version written.
This is what I use with PDFLaTeX and PassiveTeX to put vector graphics into PDF documents. Relying on EPS for graphics in PDF documents sort-of defeats the point of PDF. It seems to me that it should be fairly easy to include PDF graphics support in FOP, no? Justus "J.Pietschmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Fri, 05 Dec 2003 19:52:58 +0100: > Justus H. Piater wrote: >> It seems that FOP cannot include PDF graphics. To me this is a serious >> shortcoming, as there does not appear to be a way to include existing >> EPS or PDF graphics in a FOP-generated document, and show the result >> in acroread. > > FOP can include EPS graphis, but Acrobat reader wont display them > (that's mainly a restriction of AcrobatReader, not FOP, a PS printer > will print them even from Acrobat Reader). > What's a "PDF graphic"? A recursivly embedded PDF? > > J.Pietschmann -- Justus H. Piater, Ph.D. http://www.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~piater/ Institut Montefiore, B28 Phone: +32-4-366-2279 Universit� de Li�ge, Belgium Fax: +32-4-366-2620 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
