Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-23 Thread Ray Tayek
At 04:48 AM 1/23/2011, you wrote: Ray Tayek rta...@ca.rr.com writes: i agree. this looks like ghostscript is what i should be fooling around with. You need antialiasing. Use explicit settings on the command line, e.g., -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 Why not use the tool I sent

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-22 Thread Ray Tayek
At 02:03 AM 1/21/2011, you wrote: On 01/21/2011 09:13 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: what should the values be for bounding box? current bounding box size/current scaling factor=235/.47166=498,24 (I used 500) i understand that. what about a bounding box like: %%BoundingBox: -1 -21 101 214 would

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-21 Thread Ray Tayek
At 03:26 PM 1/20/2011, Ofnuts wrote: ... All of them produce an image with less pixels than the conversion in Gimp... (235x235 instead of 326x326). If you look at the EPS it specifies a 235x235 bounding box, and a scale factor to shoehorn the diagram in it. the page.eps file that i am using

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 03:06 AM 1/20/2011, you wrote: On 01/20/2011 02:24 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: hi, i have a lot of eps files that i need to convert to gif (or png). i was trying to use image magic, but not having any luck. ... Not with Gimp... this is the kind of work ImageMagick's convert is meant for. Might

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 11:07 PM 1/19/2011, you wrote: Ray Tayek rta...@ca.rr.com writes: if i import an eps into gimp and save it as a gif, it look pretty good. but i need to convert hundreds of these. can someone point me to some kind of starter script that would go throug the eps files in a directory

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 07:05 PM 1/19/2011, you wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Ray Tayek rta...@ca.rr.com wrote: hi, i have a lot of eps files that i need to convert to gif (or png) ... i am a programmer, but i do not know lisp. This was one of the first hits I got for 'batch' and 'convert' at the plugin

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 12:46 AM 1/20/2011, you wrote: Ray Tayek rta...@ca.rr.com writes: http://tayek.com/bobt/images/gif.html Can you send me the eps, please? sure, attached please find. page3 is one i did the testing on. thanks --- co-chair http://ocjug.org/ page3.eps Description: PostScript document

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 11:30 PM 1/19/2011, you wrote: On 1/20/2011 2:24 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: hi, i have a lot of eps files that i need to convert ... Try David's Batch Processor: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html It's really cool. i will try this. thanks --- co-chair http://ocjug.org

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 03:06 AM 1/20/2011, you wrote: On 01/20/2011 02:24 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: hi, i have a lot of eps files that i need to convert to gif (or png). i was trying to use image magic, but not having any luck. ... Not with Gimp... this is the kind of work ImageMagick's convert is meant for. Might

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 11:29 PM 1/19/2011, you wrote: What are your problems with Imagemagick, which is exactly the tool you need? i go some ideas from the image magic list and i tried a bunch of combinations of their suggestions. you can see what i tried at http://tayek.com/bobt/images/gif.html. what happens is

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 10:58 AM 1/20/2011, Chris Mohler wrote: On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Ray Tayek rta...@ca.rr.com wrote: oh, it's python (didn't know that gimp ate python). i will try some python. don't see any python-fu under filters though. are the conversion options documented anywhere

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for converting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 02:41 PM 1/20/2011, Ray Tayek wrote: At 11:30 PM 1/19/2011, you wrote: On 1/20/2011 2:24 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: hi, i have a lot of eps files that i need to convert ... Try David's Batch Processor: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html It's really cool. i will try

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 08:44 PM 1/20/2011, you wrote: Ray Tayek wrote: yes, i tried a bunch of them at http://tayek.com/bobt/images/gif.html but none of them are very good There is a problem with the set of sample conversions. The image produced by GIMP which is supposedly the good version of the image is larger

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for converting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 05:58 PM 1/20/2011, Mike Williams wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Ray Tayek mailto:rta...@ca.rr.comrta...@ca.rr.com wrote: At 02:41 PM 1/20/2011, Ray Tayek wrote: At 11:30 PM 1/19/2011, you wrote: On 1/20/2011 2:24 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: hi, i have a lot of eps files that i need

Re: [Gimp-user] newbie: script for converting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-20 Thread Ray Tayek
At 04:51 PM 1/20/2011, Ofnuts wrote: On 01/21/2011 01:43 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: At 02:41 PM 1/20/2011, Ray Tayek wrote: At 11:30 PM 1/19/2011, you wrote: On 1/20/2011 2:24 AM, Ray Tayek wrote: hi, i have a lot of eps files that i need to convert ... Try David's Batch Processor: http

[Gimp-user] newbie: script for comverting eps line drawings to gif

2011-01-19 Thread Ray Tayek
hi, i have a lot of eps files that i need to convert to gif (or png). i was trying to use image magic, but not having any luck. i am a programmer, but i do not know lisp. if i import an eps into gimp and save it as a gif, it look pretty good. but i need to convert hundreds of these. can