Re: [MiKTeX] Produce = clean postscript and eps files

[Morten H P. <mh...@da...>]

But pdfpages only work with PDFLaTeX , right? Then I'll have to change =
from LaTeX and then change all my figure to PDF instead, right? Or am I =
totally wrong there ?

Morten

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From: "Arnout Standaert" <arn...@st...>
To: <mik...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2003 4:15 PM
Subject: Re: [MiKTeX] Produce =3D clean postscript and eps files


> Morten H Pedersen wrote:
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> >Hi,
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> >Often I get postscript files that can't be read by ghostscript, for =
instance by saving as EPS or PS from Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator or =
even printing from any program using Adobes latest postscript driver. =
How can that be?=20
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> I believe that with Illustrator, it's best to select an EPS output=20
> format corresponding to earlier versions, e.g. Illustrator 6 eps. This =

> will give you smaller and possibly cleaner files.
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> >Is there an easy - an preferably free - way to 'clean' eps and ps =
file to be compliant with everything - maybe also converting all text to =
curves so fonts aren't a problem?
> >
> The ps2ps program that comes with GhostScript does something like =
that,=20
> but it doesn't work with all .ps files. Another option is the =
purifyeps=20
> Perl script (somewhere on CTAN) that does a similar job. I never got =
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> to work on a windows system, but you might have more patience.
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> >I thought Illustrator and Acrobat should be compliant, since adobe =
more or less defines postscript.
> >
> Never assume Windows applications to output decent EPS. I don't=20
> understand what it is about Windows that makes developers deviate from =

> EPS standards. Linux applications seem to have less problems in this =
regard.
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> >The reason is that I have to include PDF's in my latex (not PDFLaTeX) =
documents, and therefore have to convert them to good, solid, standard =
Postscript / EPS single page documents.=20
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> >
> Wow wow wow, wait a minute.You're doing all this _just_ to include =
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> documents in your LaTeX file?!
> I've got the perfect answer for you: check out the pdfpages package, =
it=20
> does exactly what you want to do without separating pages and =
converting=20
> them to postscript files.
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> Regards,
> Wald
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