brycenesbitt on wrote...
| Anthony Thyssen wrote:
| >
| > ImageMagick is NOT designed for vector formats like these...
| > ...You can do it but it will come out blocky.
| > If you still want to do it add a higher -denstity setting first..
| >
| > convert -density 600 foo.ai foo.eps
| >
| > Where 600 is the output resolution of your printer or other device.
| >
| > NOTE your postscript file will probably be very BIG.
| >
| > You are better of getting Illustrator to convert to postscript
| > instead, as it will generate vector postscript.
| >
|
| The problem is that Illustrator is not scriptable in this way, so converting
| 200 images once a month is too much work.
|
| But ImageMagick is doing much more than simple rasterization. When I
| convert to EPS I get a fully vector result... complete with splines and
| paths. Only the font glyphs have been rasterized, one bitmap per character.
|
If that is the case then IM is doing something, I have not seen, and
would not thought posible.
The only thing I can think of is that it is doing some sort of direct
conversion via a delegate, which again I do not (did not) thing it would
do.
Can you provide a link, or mail directly to me the '.ai' file you are
using?
| And the density flag has no effect:
| > convert -density 100 podmaps/map_1_p.ai map_1_p_100.eps
| > convert -density 600 podmaps/map_1_p.ai map_1_p_600eps
| > ls -la
| -rw-r--r-- 1 bryce users 10090 2007-02-15 09:13 map_1_p_600.eps
| -rw-r--r-- 1 bryce users 10090 2007-02-15 09:12 map_1_p_100.eps
|
| So the question remains: how can one control the font rasterization
| separately from the vector conversion to EPS. Or, where can I find another
| AI to EPS tool (and yes, I have tried pstoedit, which is unmaintained and
| broken).
If the 'ai' file is a specific postscript compatiable file format (which
I have seen in the past), then you could use the ghostscript "ps2epsi"
script to figure out and add the appropriate bounding box info, as well
as generate an imbedded preview bitmap image.
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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