Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>> I have several old encapsulated postscript graphics generated by R
>> that I want to include in a LaTeX Beamer presentation so I want them
>> in pdf. Under Ubuntu linux typing
>>
>> convert z.eps z.pdf (to use ImageMagick)
>>
>> results in a nice looking graphic but the bounding box is lost. Doing
>>
>> convert z.eps z.epdf
>>
>> results in a fuzzy image with a good bounding box.
>>
>> Does anyone have a nice solution?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Frank
>
>
> Frank,
>
> Do you only have EPS files or do you also need to include PDF files?
>
> If the former, you can use Beamer with latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf as an
> alternative to using pdflatex as a single step.
>
> If you need to have them as PDF's, two other options:
>
> 1. Use 'epstopdf':
>
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/epstopdf.html
>
> which is a Perl script that uses GS to do the conversion.
>
>
> 2. Use 'epstopdf.sty', which is part of the oberdiek CTAN bundle. This
> will enable the conversion of the EPS files to PDF as part of using
> pdflatex. A link is here:
>
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/epstopdf-pkg.html
>
> This will actually call the epstopdf Perl script above.
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc
>
Thanks very much Marc. Somehow I had missed that Beamer would work with
latex instead of pdflatex and I also didn't know about epstopdf.sty. I
ran the files through epstopdf and all seems well for me to keep using
pdflatex.
Frank
--
Frank E Harrell Jr Professor and Chair School of Medicine
Department of Biostatistics Vanderbilt University
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