[lug] image to pdf?

[D. Stimits]

"Michael J. Hammel" wrote:
> 
> Thus spoke J. Wayde Allen
> > view it?  Chances are good you could save the image as eps or ps and use
> > epstopdf or ps2pdf for example.  Chances are also good that the Gimp may
> > have a pdf plug-in for creating pdf formated files.
> 
> GIMP doesn't write to PDF directly.  The best option would be to load the
> image into GIMP and then save it as a PS file.  Then run ps2pdf.  If an
> interactive program isn't desired, you could try the ImageMagic command line
> tools (such as "convert", I believe) to convert to PS first.

I tried saving in gimp as postscript, but the results were ugly (no text
involved). I'm going to reboot and see if I can find other formats to
save as, then come back here and find out if others are better at
conversion (I know jpeg has lossy compression, so it is basically out as
a good storage format unless I can turn off compression). It does seem
logical though that somebody somewhere would create a gimp plugin for
pdf output...though I suppose licensing issues could get in the way.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> --
> Michael J. Hammel           |   I hope that after I die people will say of me:
> The Graphics Muse           |   "That guy sure owed me a lot of money."
> mjhammel at graphics-muse.org  |            Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
> http://www.graphics-muse.com
> _______________________________________________
> Web Page:  http://lug.boulder.co.us
> Mailing List: http://lists.lug.boulder.co.us/mailman/listinfo/lug