[OS X TeX] EPS to PDF--en masse?

[Thomas Braun]

Hi

I was using a csh batch for such a task some years ago (see below). You 
need ghostscript for that (contributed by the i-installer). Copy the 
patch-file lines in a texteditor and save it in the directory with the 
epsfiles e.g. as allpdf. Make it executable with
chmod +x allpdf
and type
  ./allpdf

in the terminal (you have to navigate first to the corresponding 
directory with cd and the path name or simply drag the folder on the 
terminal window).

I hope this helps and keeps the quality. I had mixed experiences with 
ghostscript (or the eps files produced by some programs).

Thomas

---Batchfile:
#/bin/csh
#
set WORKFILE
#
foreach FILE ( *.eps )
      set WORKFILE=`\ls $FILE | cut -d\. -f1`
      echo "*****Converting "$FILE
      ps2pdf $WORKFILE.eps $WORKFILE.pdf
end
echo "done"


On 06.06.2004, at 23:38, Louis A.Talman wrote:

> I've a few hundred EPS files, produced by Mathematica, that I want to 
> include in some documents I'm LaTeXing.  The files are in batches of 
> several dozen, serially named.  I can convert them to PDFs by dropping 
> them on the TeXShop icon.  However, in the numbers I want to make the 
> conversions, that's very inconvenient--TeXShop wants to open a window 
> for each, and then I have to close the windows or shut down TexShop 
> and restart it for the next batch.  Moreover, it seems to take forever 
> if I drop more than about 20 of them on the icon at once.
>
> Neither Adobe Distiller nor Lemke's Graphic Converter does as good a 
> job--the quality PDFs thet produce is inferior to that of those 
> produced by TeXShop.
>
> Is there a way to script this so it'll run in the 
> background--preferably without opening a window for each picture?
>
> --Lou Talman
>   Department of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
>   Metropolitan State College of Denver
>
>   <http://clem.mscd.edu/~talmanl>
>
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