Showing posts with label Graphics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Graphics. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

ImageMagick: Convert, Edit, and Compose Images

One of the popular problem of LaTeX user is the graphic converter. It is well known that typical LaTeX is prefer .eps as a standard format. You may use .jpg .png and .pdf file format by using pdfTeX or pdfLaTeX instead of LaTeX. The second method make a new broblem since it doesn't allow you to use .eps format. You have to find the way to convert the file format. Fortuneately, MikTeX is come with epstopdf a small utility to convert .eps to .pdf format.

A more powerful method is use ImageMagick utility set that can read, convert and write images in a variety of about 100 formats including all of the common use or every see file format. At the begining you may fear about a command line method. However, after you install and first use a convert utility, you may change your mind. For the windows user, you just download ImageMagick-6.3.2-1-Q16-windows-dll.exe and ok, ok, ... You will have ImageMagick Display on your desktop. This tool allow you to view many type of file format and also include some basic transform tools. Unfortuneately this tools is not included convert utility. In stead of GUI you can use convert with a very syntax as show below:

convert xxx.jpg xxx.bmp
convert xxx.pdf xxx.eps

So you just open windows' DOS prompt and type above command. Have fun!

 

Monday, January 29, 2007

Epspdf and epspdftk

A multiplatform GUI- and command-line converter for
[e]ps and pdf. Follow the link epspdf and epspdftk and see Window with setup program. You have to install a Ghostscript first and follow with xpdf tools for windows to get pdftops a tool for converst pdf to ps. The last tool you just extract it in some where and tell epspdftk later. After you install two prerequisite program, download epspdf.02.12.exe and run it. You have nothings to do more just use the program and click, click, ...