Re: [PLUG] Convert PDF to EPS w/no quality loss

2019-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, John Letaw wrote: I have the pdftops tool available via my installation.  I think it comes from poppler-utils?  Anyways, it looks like you can adjust paper size, and can output in EPS, so maybe worth looking at. John, I forgot to mention that ghostscript has many

Re: [PLUG] Convert PDF to EPS w/no quality loss

2019-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, John Letaw wrote: I have the pdftops tool available via my installation.  I think it comes from poppler-utils?  Anyways, it looks like you can adjust paper size, and can output in EPS, so maybe worth looking at. John, The problem is that the size of the .ps file can be 3

Re: [PLUG] Convert PDF to EPS w/no quality loss [RESOLVED]

2019-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019, Rich Shepard wrote: Might there be tools, processes, and formats that will keep the quality of .pdf images while reducing their size? Ghostscript is my friend. Hadn't looked deeply into it before now. Rich ___ PLUG mailing list

[PLUG] Convert PDF to EPS w/no quality loss

2019-10-17 Thread Rich Shepard
PDF documents of spatial maps and statistical plots can be large and slow to load when the document is viewed. I have a 7.3M report with 34 images (PDF and png; the latter at 720x480dpi) and I'd like to reduce the size. I've tried using 'convert' to produce .eps versions of .pdf maps and plots