Conversion and Printing Tools
EPS Tools
A collection of shell scripts for Linux/Unix to convert EPS files to PDF, PNG and JPEG (via Ghostscript).
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Required packages: coreutils, gawk, ghostscript, sed
FIG Tools
These shell scripts for Linux/Unix/MacOSX convert FIG files to EPS and PDF (via Ghostscript), allowing you to easily embed TeX output in your pictures.
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Required packages: coreutils, gawk, ghostscript, grep, sed, transfig, and a full LaTeX system with dvips and pdflatex (e.g. texlive)
Print Tools
These shell scripts for Linux/Unix print PS or PDF files with multiple pages per side at the optimal (largest possible) scale, which is determined automatically by calculating the space occupied by the page contents.
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Required packages: coreutils, cups, gawk, ghostscript, poppler-utils, psutils, sed
Instructions
Extract the downloaded archive to ~/bin (the command tar -xzpf file.tgz will do the job). Make sure that you have execute permissions for the extracted scripts, and that ~/bin is in your PATH environment variable.
Acknowledgement
I thank all users who have helped me to keep these tools up to date, and for suggesting a number of improvements and new features.
New features/Bug fixes
EPS Tools • 2008 • better support for EPS files created on DOS or Mac platforms; esp2pdf now embeds and subsets all fonts in the output file • 2009 • support for HiRes Bounding Boxes added; bug in the -B option fixed; image size is now computed correctly when scaling or rotating; color rendering has been improved; the possibility to prepend PostScript files has been added; eps2png and eps2jpg can now scale images to a specific number of pixels; new PNG mode 48 added; new JPEG mode CMYK added; simpler and more efficient coding • 2010 • added the -C option • 2011 • added the -o option; added the -l option in eps2pdf; improved conversion to a different color model in eps2pdf • 2013 • PostScript scaling/rotation code is now properly protected inside a dictionary • 2015 • -C option removed because of changes in Ghostscripts color management system (support for icc profiles may be added in a future release)
FIG Tools • 2008 • fixed a bug occurring with some versions of transfig • 2009 • added the -F option to respect FIG font sizes; added the -k option to aid debugging; fixed the "illegal character" bug on Mac OS X • 2010 • fixed a bug in the error handling of fig2pdf; fixed the "invalid GenericResourceDir" problem occuring in OpenSuse 11.3 • 2011 • added the -i option; added FIG2EPS_CODE and FIG2PDF_CODE environment variables; added the -l option in fig2pdf; the tools are now able to handle larger figures (up to roughly 5×5 m or 17×17 feet) • 2013 • added the -o option; fixed the problem of large figures being clipped to Letter size in the eps output file • 2015 • the bounding box is now always determined by Ghostscript, and the -B option has been removed; fig2pdf no longer produces an eps file but generates the pdf directly; as a consequence, the images produced by fig2eps and fig2pdf can (in rare cases) differ in size; fig2eps no longer passes its output through Ghostscript, so the -d and -D and -o options have been removed; the -C option has been removed in favor of autodetection of colored special text; -t and -T generate cleaner tex output, and the picture environment now has the correct size to envelop the entire figure and special text
Print Tools • 2010 • filenames containing spaces are now handled correctly, and so are empty pages and pages whose bounding box starts exactly at (0,0); added the -r option • 2011 • the tools now point to the -h option for help