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

Michael E. Thomadakis miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu
Sat Aug 14 00:13:48 CEST 2010


Zdenek,

thanks for the tip. I will try it out

Michael

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Zdenek Wagner wrote:

| Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 23:39:37 +0200
| From: Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
| To: Michael E. Thomadakis <miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>
| Cc: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>, tex-live at tug.org
| Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeX-live updates on Solaris10?
| 
| 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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