[Journal] converting to pdf

[Martin Wegmann]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007 17:51, Markus Neteler wrote:
> On 4/4/07, Martin Wegmann <wegmann at biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > just a tip for converting eps, jpg, etc. to pdf.
>
> I am confused - don't we use pdflatex? Then JPG, PNG
> can just remain. And EPS you can convert with epstopdf from
> the tetex package.

sorry, my fault - I wrote it after converting eps files

> I had changed GRASS Newsletter Vol4 to pdflatex and
> I thought that the OSGeo Journal is based on this?

yes, it is still based on GRASS newsletter 4

Martin

> Rule of thumb: avoid format conversion whereever possible...
>
> Markus
>
> > If you use Linux, a tool for KDE exists KIM
> > (http://bouveyron.free.fr/kim/), which allows you to convert, resize etc.
> > your images with a mouse click.
> >
> > this way it is very easy and fast to convert jpg, eps into pdf and use
> > them for the Journal.
> >
> > Perhaps something similar exists also for other OS.
> >
> > Martin
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