[R] Converting from encapsulated postscript to encapsulated pdf

[Frank E Harrell Jr]

Marc Schwartz wrote:
> Frank E Harrell Jr wrote:
>> I have several old encapsulated postscript graphics generated by R 
>> that I want to include in a LaTeX Beamer presentation so I want them 
>> in pdf.   Under Ubuntu linux typing
>>
>> convert z.eps z.pdf (to use ImageMagick)
>>
>> results in a nice looking graphic but the bounding box is lost.  Doing
>>
>> convert z.eps z.epdf
>>
>> results in a fuzzy image with a good bounding box.
>>
>> Does anyone have a nice solution?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Frank
> 
> 
> Frank,
> 
> Do you only have EPS files or do you also need to include PDF files?
> 
> If the former, you can use Beamer with latex -> dvips -> ps2pdf as an 
> alternative to using pdflatex as a single step.
> 
> If you need to have them as PDF's, two other options:
> 
> 1. Use 'epstopdf':
> 
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/epstopdf.html
> 
> which is a Perl script that uses GS to do the conversion.
> 
> 
> 2. Use 'epstopdf.sty', which is part of the oberdiek CTAN bundle. This 
> will enable the conversion of the EPS files to PDF as part of using 
> pdflatex.  A link is here:
> 
> http://www.tex.ac.uk/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/epstopdf-pkg.html
> 
> This will actually call the epstopdf Perl script above.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Marc
> 

Thanks very much Marc.  Somehow I had missed that Beamer would work with 
latex instead of pdflatex and I also didn't know about epstopdf.sty.  I 
ran the files through epstopdf and all seems well for me to keep using 
pdflatex.

Frank

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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                      Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University