General ⇒ Is there any way to use .eps images when outputting to a pdf

[brian_s]

Are there any packages that allow .eps files to be used when creating a pdf document? I have drawn some images in Inkscape and it wont export files in .jpg format.

Anyone have any other options for programs which I could use for drawing diagrams that would be compatible?


Thanks
Brian

[gmedina]

Hi,

you will find some answers to your question if you use the "Search" button of the board (top right corner) with "epstopdf" as keyword.

[brian_s]

Thanks, had been using the wrong search keywords, and hadnt found much useful info.

I have just tried using the epstopdf package, but getting errors. Then instead just saved my inkscape images as pdf's. Diagrams seem to be coming out OK in the document (better than using screen capture to convert to jpg any way). Is this the way I should continue? Are there any downsides to saving the images as .pdf's?

Thanks again

[localghost]

Since Inkscape is made for drawing vector based images, it is clear that you can't save your diagrams in (the pixel based) JPG format. But it supports to save them directly as PDF. Like EPS it is a vector based format and yields best results when scaled. Hence a conversion will not be necessary.


Best regards
Thorsten¹

[daleif]

to use the epstopdf package your LaTeX needs to run external programs, this is usually disabled (for security)

I would convert by hand, using the the commandline tool epstopdf

as far as I remember you can also do this via gsview (if you are on windows), it should be in the menu (perhaps I'm wrong)