Patrick Ben Koetter wrote:
> I'm using XXE 2.11 with the xep- and jimi-plugin (TIF support) on Windows XP.
>
> I want to include EPS graphics in my document. There are two problems I have:
>
> a) EPS graphics are not displayed in the editor, while other file formats
> usually are. I remember reading something about this limitation and IIRC it
> had something to do with the Jimi plugin, but I am not really sure if this
> points towards the solution or is just something I am mixing up at the
> moment.
> The EPS graphics I am using have been built with TIF preview included.
>
> b) XEP won't print EPS to PDF. It states that it can't find the file. I've
> verified the path. This is my document:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <!DOCTYPE article PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN"
> "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd";>
> <article>
> <title>foo</title>
>
> <section>
> <title>bar</title>
>
> <para>baz</para>
>
> <figure>
> <title>foo</title>
>
> <mediaobject>
> <imageobject>
> <imagedata fileref="abbildungen/abb-01-01.eps" format="EPS" />
> </imageobject>
> </mediaobject>
> </figure>
> </section>
> </article>
>
>
> This is the first time I am trying to use EPS and I might simply totally miss
> something. Any ideas where I could go on trying to fix this?
--> If you want to keep things as simple as possible:
> a) EPS graphics are not displayed in the editor
Not a problem. Just ignore this limitation.
> had something to do with the Jimi plugin
Jimi has nothing to do with TIFF previews inside EPS.
> b) XEP won't print EPS to PDF.
This is documented by RenderX. The workaround is to add a PDF
<imageobject> just after the EPS one (or simply to convert your EPS to PDF):
---
<mediaobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="abbildungen/abb-01-01.eps" format="EPS"/>
</imageobject>
<imageobject>
<imagedata fileref="abbildungen/abb-01-01.pdf" format="PDF"/>
</imageobject>
</mediaobject>
---
--> If you want the best and are not affraid to do a little work
configuring XXE:
[1] Install the latest ghostscript on your PC.
[2] Add this snippet to your <XXE_user_preferences_dir>/addon/customize.xxe:
---
<!-- =================================================================
Requires Ghostscript 8+ to be installed. Will not work properly
with Ghostscript 7 which does not support the -dEPSCrop switch.
If the gs (gswin32c.exe on Windows) program is not
in your PATH, you'll
need to slightly edit the shell child elements below.
Tested on Windows using:
* Ghostscript 8.14, an interpreter for the PostScript
language and for PDF.
See http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.
================================================================== -->
<imageToolkit name="Ghostscript">
<description>Converts EPS and PDF graphics to PNG.
Important: requires Ghostscript 8+.</description>
<converter>
<input extensions="eps epsf ps pdf" magicStrings="%!PS %PDF"/>
<output extensions="png"/>
<shell command='gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m
-r96 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dEPSCrop
%A "-sOutputFile=%O" "%I"'
platform="Unix"/>
<shell command='gswin32c -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=png16m
-r96 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dEPSCrop
%A "-sOutputFile=%O" "%I"'
platform="Windows"/>
</converter>
</imageToolkit>
---
[3] Restart XXE and the EPS images will be displayed on screen and
RenderX XEP will get them automatically converted to PNG.
--> If you really want the absolute best (no PNG rasters when converting
your documents to PDF) and are not afraid by reading this documentation:
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/ch06s11.html
* You'll adapt the above Ghostscript-based <imageToolkit> in order to
automatically convert EPS to PNG (for screen rendering) *or* to PDF (for
XEP).
