[OS X TeX] Turning eps to pdf problems

[David Watson]

OK, here's the workaround to get epstopdf to work correctly and give  
you a proper bounding box:

file testfonts.eps

Add the length at the beginning in this case, 30, to the length of  
the postscript, in this case 28101, to get 28131.

Then try
split -b 28131 testfonts.eps

this will output two files: xaa and xab.

Now, simply
mv xaa fixedfonts.eps
epstopdf fixedfonts.eps

and you will get what you desire.

I'm sorry I don't know exactly why the program you are using decides  
to throw the TIFF preview in along with postscript. Perhaps there is  
an option to turn this behavior off, and then this workaround  
wouldn't be necessary.



On May 21, 2006, at 10:33 PM, David Watson wrote:

> Just on a hunch, when I try:
> file testfonts.eps
>
> this is the result:
> testfonts.eps: DOS EPS Binary File Postscript starts at byte 30  
> length 28101 TIFF starts at byte 28131 length 17562
>
> You might want to try to output an ASCII Postcript file, if that is  
> an option. ps2pdf14 works just fine, but I'm not sure you will get  
> the correct bounding box.
>
> On May 21, 2006, at 5:26 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:
>
>> I have a number of eps graphics (from Sibelius) that I would like  
>> to use with pdftex and xetex.
>> With only one exception, every tool that I have tried (pstopdf,  
>> convert and epstopdf) converts
>> all fonts to bitmaps. The only exception is Apple's Preview  
>> application which will open the
>> eps file and save it out as a pdf with the fonts as outlines. Is  
>> there a way to get the other
>> utilities to do the same thing?
>>
>> Thanks for any help on this.
>>
>> Stephen Moye
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