Le jeu 4 jan, Andre Juffer m'a �crit:
> Hi James,
>
> you could use ImageMagick to convert your image file in any format to
> any other format including eps. That means that you can run your
> favourite package for generating your image files, save it a format for
> which the package doesn't crash and convert it to eps with ImageMagick.
It' right, but this way will James probably get a bitmapped image, and,
even converted to eps-format, it will remains a bitmapped image (in
fact, "wrapped" in PostScript language) , whereas he surely wants a
vectorized image, which is scalable, not "crude", and more compact.
Every programs which is able to print on a linux system can virtually
produce postscript - in most of cases, there is an option "Print to
file", in the worst of case, you can disconnect your printer and print,
the resulting postscript file will be in the spooler !
So a ps file can be converted with ps2epsi (coming with ghostscript
package) which will evaluate a correct bounding box on basis of the
greatest dimensions of the objects in the ps file, and crop the
superfluous white surrounding spaces.
Some drawing programs give the option to print "only the selected
objects" ; in this case, there is a chance that you will receive
directly a correct bounding box.
It's interessant to know that, even in windows, if you choose a
PostScript printer (you don't need to have a real one, only the driver
for it !) and print to a file, you can take advantage of the resulting
file. It's a way that I use with "autocratic closed programs" which
don't permit to export data's ...
According with others responses, I find tgif very handy.
Cheers
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