[pdftex] pdfTeX 1.00a: Problems with png images

Sebastian Rahtz sebastian.rahtz at computing-services.oxford.ac.uk
Sat Feb 9 17:36:52 CET 2002


On Fri, Feb 08, 2002 at 10:37:41PM +0100, Christian Leutloff wrote:

> Yes, you're right. But I haven't found a way from PowerPoint Slides
> to PDF
so dont use Powerpoint:-}

>  You can print from PPT to a postscript file. Then the problem
> is cutting the white border and save the file as PDF

make PDF, then edit the PDF in Acrobat to crop down to what you like.
or make PS, and ask GS to calculate the bounding box (several
scripts out there to do the job)
 
> This is the command I'm using at the moment:
> 
> convert -colorspace gray -colors 256 -crop 0x0 -density 150x150
> -rotate 90 bla.ps bla.png

and is you say "blah.pdf" at the end, it falls over? 

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