Document Classes ⇒ Problems converting jpg and bmp to PostScript

[checha]

I have a lot of graphics to include in a document in a bmp or jpg format, is there a way to include this kind of graphics or do I need a program to convert them to eps? What program do you recomend? Thanks

[localghost]

That depends on your compiling route. latex only accepts files in PS/EPS format, whereas pdflatex allows to use JPG, PNG or PDF format. When compiling with pdflatex, you can keep your files in JPG format. Otherwise you have to convert them. For conversion there exist many good tools. On the one side there is the command line tool ImageMagick. It is easy to handle and converts many formats. On the other side there is GIMP, a very powerful picture editing software similar to Photoshop that also offers an export function to EPS.

[pumpkinegan]

Another alternative that I often use is OpenOffice Draw. I just insert the jpg/png file and export as an eps. It is useful from time to time, but it would be laborious if you have many jpg/png/bmp files.

I would recommend not to convert to eps, and just compile with pdfLaTeX. Since you have raster images, there is no benefit to converting to a vector image.

[checha]

Thanks for the advise, I'll try jpg with PDFLatex

[checha]

That depends on your compiling route. latex only accepts files in PS/EPS format, whereas pdflatex allows to use JPG, PNG or PDF format. When compiling with pdflatex, you can keep your files in JPG format. Otherwise you have to convert them. For conversion there exist many good tools. On the one side there is the command line tool ImageMagick. It is easy to handle and converts many formats. On the other side there is GIMP, a very powerful picture editing software similar to Photoshop that also offers an export function to EPS.

I download imagemagick, I open the jpg file but cannot convert it to ps/eps

[localghost]

I download imagemagick, I open the jpg file but cannot convert it to ps/eps

What does "open" mean in this case? Depending on your OS, open a command prompt or shell and convert the graphics file as follows.

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convert picture.jpg picture.eps