Comments on: Convert LaTeX figures to stand-alone graphics

By: brandon

brandon — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:58:32 +0000

UPDATE.. it turns out ‘dvips -E’ is not a good way to generate an eps, because it chooses a resolution and may rasterize fonts. I don’t know exactly what it does, but for text-heavy graphics it doesn’t work too well. My new version uses:

export GS_OPTIONS=”-dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dEmbedAllFonts=true” && ps2eps -f -l

instead. This also eliminates the need for the \fbox construction, as ps2eps seems to be very smart about determining the bounding box.

By: brandon

brandon — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:19:28 +0000

@ Tobin Fricke
Thanks for the note, Tobin– I was wondering if you would read this!

It looks like PStoEdit only operates the WMF conversion if it’s running on a Windows system already- so it would be a bit of work to set up my TeX environment on Windows (and it would have to include cygwin, which I’ve so far been able to avoid). But it would be nice to have a vector image.

Incidentally, the reverse problem (WMF-to-EPS) is solved with a program called WMF2EPS, but it relies on an external postscript driver- and the Adobe standalone driver is not compatible with Vista!

My advisor is plainly displeased at the results of latex2rtf so it looks like I will have to start composing documents natively in word. or postprocessing the rtf more aggressively. NOBODY TeXes in my new discipline and I’m beginning to find it quite isolating.

By: Tobin Fricke

Tobin Fricke — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:03:02 +0000

It seems it would be preferable to keep the drawing in a vector format. I don’t use Windows either, but I think the appropriate format might be “Windows Metafile” or “Enhanced Metafile” (EMF).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Metafile

I found this program that claims to be able to convert postscript files into EMF (and other vector formats):

http://www.pstoedit.com/

So, you would just replace the call to ImageMagick’s “convert” to this program instead.