Guenter Milde wrote:
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2002 10:07:54 -0500 wrote Guido Milanese
> 
> > I downloaded jpg2eps. I did not find compilation instructions: can 
> > someone kindly tell me how to do? I downloaded also a Makefile. My 
> > platform is Linux Mandrake 8.0.

Under 'normal circumstances' a simple 
 make ; make install 
should do the trick.  But I don't know wether developer tools (include
files etc.) are installed by default in Mandrake.

> maybe you don't need it at all... If you have ImageMagic's convert, 
>    convert a.jpg a.eps2 
> or
>    convert image.jpeg eps2:image.eps
> should do the job.

It does it in a different way. AFAIK, jpeg2ps implements a jpeg decoder
written in PostScript that wraps around the original jpeg image.  That
way the file size is *much* smaller.

   Pit

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