[Journal] Errors and corrections
Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
tmitchell at osgeo.org
Thu Apr 5 15:26:36 EDT 2007
On 5-Apr-07, at 11:28 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
>> Very nice now! Do you find that imagemagick convert command is not
>> sufficient for converting eps to pdf?
>
> I think that it is simply wrong since it will rasterize, then
> make a raster pdf. But these graphs were vector graphs
> which we want to keep. epstopdf does it correctly (comes
> with the tetex package): a vector pdf.
That is good to know - thanks! I get frustrated with many PDF
producing applications that rasterise everything. Mac's built-in
tools frustrate me in the same way too, though they are so convenient
sometimes. I will start using eps2pdf a lot now!
Tyler
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