Why not convert eps to gif/jpg and then embed gifs/jpgs into the document?
Bill Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/30/2001 09:35:50 AM
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We're evaluating FOP as an alternative to
customers. We're talking about a set of books
that comprises around 10,000 pages.
Regards,
Bill
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Why not convert eps to gif/jpg
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There are several reasons for not converting the .eps graphics to a
bitmapped format:
1) These illustrations (and we have literally thousands of them) are
technical illustrations that require very clear printed output. Most
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--- Bill Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are several reasons for not converting the .eps graphics to a
bitmapped format:
Yes - I
Phil,
I did try pstoedit, and it didn't work on a good percentage of our graphics
(most in fact).
Thanks,
Bill
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From: Phil Endecott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 10:37 AM
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I don't think it's possible to embed pdf directly into another pdf
document.
It *might* be possible to support eps directly with fop by using pdf
xobjects (not quite sure here, but I think I remember somthing about that
from the pdf spec), but then the pdf document would have to be printed on
Hi again,
Further to the message I sent a few minutes ago suggesting pstoedit
for EPS to SVG conversion - I've had a quick play, and it seems that
there are two ways to make pstoedit create SVG. Either you pay $50
to enable the shareware SVG back-end, or use use -f plot-svg.
This uses GNU
In the PDF specs I actually found something about including PostScript.
Chapter 4.10 PostScript XObjects might be a solution but it also says
there:
Note: Since PDF 1.3 encompasses all of the Adobe imaging model features
of the PostScript language, there is no longer any reason to use
PostScript
