[Matplotlib-users] OT: ghostscript epswrite for flattening PS files

[William H. <wh...@gm...>]

Hi Darren

On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 09:48 -0400, Darren Dale wrote:
> > Since I also have limited time, I could use epswrite for now. The resulting
> > figures are not fantastic on screen, (I already had smooth line art enabled
> > in Adobe Reader), but marginal improvements can be had by increasing the
> > viewer's resolution. 
> 
> I have some good news! This morning I discovered the ability to set the 
> resolution during the creation of an eps file with epswrite:
> 
> gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -q -r6000 -sDEVICE=epswrite -dLanguageLevel=3 \ 
> -dEPSFitPage -sOutputFile=foo.eps foo.ps
> 
> This file can be embedded in a new latex document and it has no font 
> information so the text is rendered properly. The final output looks great 
> when printed or viewed with Adobe Reader. I think this is the way to go. As 
> for file size, the eps output from examples/tex_demo.py is about 50KB. 
> 

Hmm, very strange. I'd been getting all the same results without
bothering with the ghostscript resolution switch. I can't honestly see
why the resolution should have much to do with it since I thought it
only affected any vector->raster conversions, whereas epswrite should be
keeping everything as vector, albeit flattened. I am using GNU
Ghostscript 7.07 (2003-05-17). My files look fine on-screen in ghostview
et al. When converted to PDF they look godawful in xpdf and kpdf but
fine in acroread with "Smooth Line Art" enabled.

 
Cheers

Will

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  Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Morelia