[lug] image to pdf?

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 10:46, D. Stimits wrote:
> What would be the recommended means of taking a color image and creating
> a pdf from it on linux? I have the image in multiple formats, though eps
> is not one of them. Is this "a job for LaTeX"? Or some other utility?


Hi Dan,

Heres two [1] options:

  convert file.jpg file.ps
  ps2pdf file.ps

or [2]

  convert file.jpg file.ps
  ps2epsi file.ps
  in tex_file.tex:
    \usepackage[dvips]{epsfig}
    \def\scalefig#1{\epsfxsize #1\textwidth}
    \begin{figure}[htbp]
    \centerline{ \scalefig{.8}\epsfbox{../cord_none.eps} }
    \caption{}
    \end{figure}
  latex tex_file
  dvips -Ppdf -G0  tex_file
  ps2pdf tex_file.ps


I'd use the latter only if you need to add a caption or some other
text.  I included it only because its been very helpful in my papers.

hth,
Ed

[1] - you'll want to have ImageMagick and ghostscript (v7.x) installed 
[2] - this may not be the exact syntax, but its very close


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