Is there a package available in the CentOS repos that will convert either a MicroSoft Word .doc, an OOo .otd, or an Acrobat .pdf file into eps format? If so, what is its name? If not, What not CentOS packages are available (if any) and recommended to accomplish this?
Regards
-----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces@centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces@centos.org] On Behalf Of James B. Byrne Sent: Friday, February 23, 2007 3:48 PM To: centos@centos.org Subject: [CentOS] Centos package to export to eps format
Is there a package available in the CentOS repos that will convert either a MicroSoft Word .doc, an OOo .otd, or an Acrobat .pdf file into eps format? If so, what is its name? If not, What not CentOS packages are available (if any) and recommended to accomplish this?
Yes! It's called cups+ghostscript, there is also a cups filter floating arounds called cups-pdf which does the leg work for you.
Basically cups presents a Postscript printer to the network, pick any good color postscript printer, (add samba for windows printing support and ads publishing) the client machine connects, converts the documents into Postscript for printing, but instead of going to a postscript printer it sends it to ghostscript's ps2pdf converter.
You can add your own little flare to it. I had one running once that would drop the job on a Samba share and send an email with a link to it, you could do the same with Apache, use SSL if it has confidential info, make the name an md5 hash of the document, set a cron job to purge all pdfs > 24 hours old. You get the idea.
-Ross
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On Fri Feb 23 20:57:04 UTC 2007, Ross S. W. Walker rwalker at medallion.com wrote:
Yes! It's called cups+ghostscript, there is also a cups filter floating arounds called cups-pdf which does the leg work for you.
Basically cups presents a Postscript printer to the network, pick any good color postscript printer, (add samba for windows printing support and ads publishing) the client machine connects, converts the documents into Postscript for printing, but instead of going to a postscript printer it sends it to ghostscript's ps2pdf converter.
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.
Regards,
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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