[XeTeX] Newbie Alert: EPS to PDF question

[Jonathan Kew]

On 15 Aug 2007, at 2:36 pm, Kate Hayes wrote:

> I'm faced with having to convert hundreds of graphic files from EPS  
> to PDF
> so I can use XeTeX (which I need for the hundreds of fonts we use).  
> Short of
> writing a script or just doing it manually (groan), am I perhaps  
> missing
> something in the documentation about XeTeX's converting them  
> automatically?

XeTeX won't automatically do anything with them. But if you have a  
folder full of .eps files, and want .pdf versions, how about using a  
Terminal window and running something like

   for f in *.eps ; do echo Processing ${f}... ; epstopdf ${f} ; done

HTH,

JK