On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Ryan Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2009, at 10:10, Xin Liu wrote: > >> I have a drawing in PDF, which is generated by PDFCreator from a Visio >> drawing in Windows. When I convert it to eps using "convert a.pdf >> a.eps", it looks like a low-resolution bitmap and the PDF's page size >> is kept (i.e., there is a lot of white space). It used to be good, >> i.e., the produced eps file looks as smooth as the original PDF file, >> and the large white margin in the original PDF file is eliminated. >> Does anyone have the same problem? Any clue where the problem is? >> Since ImageMagick uses ghostscript to handle PDF/eps, it might be a >> ghostscript problem as well... >> >> I've confirmed my PDF file is OK, because the conversion goes well >> when I use the ImagickMagick bundled with Ubuntu-8.04. >> >> My configuration: Snow Leopard running in 32-bit mode, MacPorts-1.8.1, >> ImageMagick @6.5.8-0_1+q16 (active), ghostscript @8.70_1 (active). > > What did you mean, "it used to be good" -- did you mean it worked in a > previous version of ImageMagick? or a previous version of Mac OS X? or a > different computer?
It worked in a previous version of ImageMagick, but I forgot which version. Again, I also suspect that the problem may be related to the current version of ghostscript. > Can you provide a test image that demonstrates the problem? A sample pdf: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~xinl/test.pdf A good eps converted from the pdf with an ImageMagick on a ubuntu machine: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~xinl/test-good.eps An eps converted from the pdf with the ImageMagick in macports: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~xinl/test-bad.eps _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
