Am Mittwoch 17 Oktober 2007 11:03:26 schrieb Frank Jahnke: > On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 07:52 +0200, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > What difficulties do you have? > > Well, in the most recent example, I used OO.o draw to combine three .jpg > images into a single file after cropping them with gimp. These came > from a colleague's CAD program -- I could start with a different format, > but JPEGs are pretty standard.
Why didn't you use the eps output from gimp directly? I quite often use gimp without any hassle. > > OO.o failed with the conversion -- parts of the image do not appear in > the output file -- as did conversion with ImageMagick. Exporting as > a .png and using Acrobat (on Windows) to crop further and convert > to .eps gives a file without a bounding box. That causes groff to choke > -- nothing printed for the figure at all. > > I've tried variations on this theme, and all have had challenges. > Ultimately, I exported as a .pdf from OO.o, converted that to .ps in > Acrobat, and then converted .ps to .eps with ImageMagick, which worked. > It looks terrible on the screen (font issues?) but it prints properly, > at least on my Postscript printer. Incidentally, gimp would not print > the original images either on-screen or on the printer with enough > fidelity, though it does the cropping OK. > > I will try the tools you mention (deleted here for brevity), but after > the current proposal has been submitted. > > > I believe that your question is rather: How can I embed JPG images and > > the like so that they can be extracted as such after conversion of the > > groff PS output file to the PDF format... > > That is a good restatement. > > Frank
