[tex-live] TeX-live updates on Solaris10?

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Fri Aug 13 23:39:37 CEST 2010


2010/8/13 Michael E. Thomadakis <miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>:
> To answer my own question:
>
> /usr/local/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE  -dBATCH \
>                -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 \
>                -sDEVICE=pngalpha -sOutputFile=$Fpng $Fpdf
>
>
> Actually this should be useful to all those who have tried to create graphical
> elements with OOffice 3.2.1 and wanted to import them seemlessly
> in as .eps or .pdf images using latex or pdflatex respectively and obtain
> decent results.
>
Use pdfcrop after step 2, then you do not need steps 4 and 5. This
works also for multipage PDF files, each page will have its own BB.

> 1) Draw figure in OO 3.2.1 (earlier may have font rendering issues)
>
> 2) Ctrl-A to grab single figure and save as PDF + Option 'selected' into say G.PDF
>
> 3) pdftops -eps G.PDF G.PS ;            # create PS as eps
>
> 4) ps2eps -f G.PS ;                     # save to an eps with corrected BB
>
> 5) epstopdf --outfile=G.pdf F.eps       # to .pdf with corrected BB
>
> 6) gs -dNOPAUSE  -dBATCH \
>
>                -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 \
>
>                -sDEVICE=pngalpha -sOutputFile=G.png G.pdf
>
>                                        # if you need a .png
>
> Now you can include the G.eps, G.pdf or G.png in latex/pdflatex or HTML and
> have the correct BB.
>
> Regards
>
> Michael Thomadakis
>
>
> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Michael E. Thomadakis wrote:
>
> | Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:18:19 -0500 (CDT)
> | From: Michael E. Thomadakis <miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>
> | To: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>
> | Cc: tex-live at tug.org
> | Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeX-live updates on Solaris10?
> |
> | Manuel,
> |
> | Thanks ... I hope that TL2010 is 'uneventful' and I am looking forward to
> | installing it.
> |
> | I have 1 last irrelevant Q: is there any good in your oppinion open source
> | code to translate PDF to PNG ? I tried the 'convert' but it does not seem to
> | do anti-aliasing for text vertically oriented.
> |
> | thanks again
> |
> | Michael
> |
> |
> | On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> |
> | | Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:50:24 +0200
> | | From: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>
> | | To: Michael E. Thomadakis <miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>
> | | Cc: tex-live at tug.org
> | | Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeX-live updates on Solaris10?
> | |
> | | Le 13/08/2010 18:46, Michael E. Thomadakis a écrit :
> | | > BTW are there any real changes in TeX ? I saw the vieo presentation by D.
> | | > Knuth who was obviously being facetious ...
> | | >
> | | Sure :-)
> | |
> | | You'll find a summary of the actual changes in the TL 2010 documentation:
> | |
> | | http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-7800010.2
> | |
> | | hth,
> | | Manuel.
> | |
> |
>
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