Graphics, Figures & Tables ⇒ png to eps conversion

[nancyh]

Hi,

I found the following code which should convert png to eps

convert filename.png fileman.eps

When I try it I don't get an error message, but neither does the .eps appear in the directory. I do get the following message in the terminal window:

CONVERT commands are now available -- (Version 1.6-3)

Defaults for automatic NDF conversion are set.

Type conhelp for help on CONVERT commands.
Type "showme sun55" to browse the hypertext documentation.

Does anyone know why its not working? I know I could use pdflatex, but I've been told that its better to use an eps image for scaling.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

PNG is already not scalable, so a basic conversion to EPS doesn't matter. A different thing would be a vectorization of a PNG image, which is not a simple conversion.

I would use pdfLaTeX with PNG images. If programs can output EPS files, such as graphs, that would be a reason to use EPS but not with bitmap images.

Stefan

[nancyh]

Thanks. I think he must have actually have meant me to regenerate the image as eps. Maybe I'll do that in future.

[jrwhitbourn]

Hi, I think your problem is a conflict with the Starlink convert utility.
http://star-www.rl.ac.uk/star/bin/convert/convert.icl

If you remove Starlink from your startup script this should solve the problem, well at least till you need Starlink. J