[Tugindia] Converting JPEG to PS

[Kapil Hari Paranjape]

Hello,

Users who wish to convert JPEG to Postscript for inclusion in a
TeX/LaTeX document (or for any other reason) may want to use:

	convert file.jpg eps2:file.eps
	                    ^
Note the 2! This is better than the default "convert file.jpg file.eps".

Explanation:
The default postscript level for PS conversion is 1 which produces large
and bad conversions since it produces pixelised bitmaps. In PS Level 2
and Level 3 the conversion of JPEG is inbuilt so the above procedure
just adds a bit of postscript header stuff to the *unchanged* jpeg file.
In other words this conversion is lossless.

You can also use "eps3" as the tag but beware that may be reasonably new
postscript printers that are *not* level 3 compliant. (Ghostscript *is*
level 3 compliant).

Regards,

Kapil.

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