On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:10 PM, Xin Liu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
I forgot to mention that the ImageMagick on an ubuntu machine is an older version (7:6.3.7.9.dfsg1-2ubuntu1.1). _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
