John Hughes wrote:
The xml file looks like this:
<delegate decode="eps" encode="pdf" mode="bi" command=""@PSDelegate@" -q
-dBATCH -dSAFER -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop
-dAlignToPixels=0 -sDEVICE=pdfwrite "-sOutputFile=%o" -- "%i"" />
<delegate decode="eps" encode="ps" mode="bi" command=""@PSDelegate@" -q
-dBATCH -dSAFER -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dNOPAUSE -dEPSCrop
-dAlignToPixels=0 -sDEVICE=pswrite "-sOutputFile=%o" -- "%i"" />
There are no other entries starting with <delegate decode="eps"...
And I'm afraid I don't know if ImageMagick uses epstopdf.
John
I responded to John out-of-band with some attachments; no point in
spamming the rest of the list with them. The problem turned out to be
with John's EPS file. It's got what I believe is a bitmap (preview
image?) embedded in it, along with the vector commands, and it appears
that ImageMagick sees the bitmap and chooses to convert that. All of
the following produced what looked to me to be good quality output:
* manually editing the EPS file to get rid of the binary stuff produced
a clean conversion (via ImageMagick);
* running 'convert -density 300x300 ...' on the original file;
* loading the original image into Ghostview and using File->Convert with
device=pdfwrite and resolution=600; and
* running the original file through Acrobat Distiller.
/Paul
