On Monday 28 February 2005 10:55 am, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Mon 28 Feb 05, 11:02 AM, Dylan Beaudette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Hi, > > > > I have a poster (36" x 48") that is saved in PS format. > > > > using epstopdf, i can create a PDF file that has the correct page > > dimensions, but the JPEG compression makes the images in the PDF look > > bad. > > > > even with the --nocompression flag, PDFs from epstopdf still contain some > > compression artifacts... > > > > I have tried using ps2pdf14 like this: > > > > ps2pdf14 -dAutoFilterxxxImages=false -dAutoRotatePages=/None > > -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress poster.ps > > > > ... in the past this has produced nice PDFs without compression > > artifacts, but for some reason, when i try to use this with a poster > > sized PS file, the resulting PDF is clipped to about 8.5" x 11" .... > > > > any ideas on how to either: > > 1. create a PDF from epstopdf without *any* JPEG compression > > or > > 2. get a full-sized PDF from ps2pdf14 > > > > ? > > > > thanks in advance for any ideas... this is a problem that has been > > driving me nuts for a while now... > > Have you tried using gimp to convert between ps and pdf? > > Pete
Pete, I don't think that it will work, as the original PS file has a lot of vector components, and opening the file in GIMP would rasterize the entire thing.... -- Dylan Beaudette Soils and Biogeochemistry Graduate Group University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
