[CentOS] Re: Centos package to export to eps format

Fri Feb 23 22:10:05 UTC 2007
Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 at duke.edu>

On Fri, 23 Feb 2007 at 5:04pm, James B. Byrne wrote

> I cannot tell if this answers my question or not so I will restate my
> requirement.  I believe that I need to create an .eps format file with
> text and graphics and font information preserved. I have the original
> document in ms-word 2000 format. I also have it in .pdf format. I am given
> to understand that the difference between .eps and .ps is the the
> inclusion of the font info.  Is a plain .ps output file sufficent instead
> because this I can easily accomplish.

Either PS or EPS is trivially available from a PDF:

pdf2ps file.pdf
ps2epsi file.ps

Both commands are stock ghostscript commands.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University