Converting PDF to EPS - Revision history

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	done		done
	# end of script.		# end of script.
	</~~bash~~>		</source>

	Usage: pdf2eps *.pdf		Usage: pdf2eps *.pdf

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	Usage: pdf2eps *.pdf		Usage: pdf2eps *.pdf

			=References=

			* http://email.esm.psu.edu/pipermail/macosx-tex/2004-July/006767.html

Admin: Created page with "=The Problem= EPS files are common and easy to use in LaTeX documents, but they're only easy to produce if you have direct control over the production process, which is often no..."

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Created page with "=The Problem= EPS files are common and easy to use in LaTeX documents, but they're only easy to produce if you have direct control over the production process, which is often no..."

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=The Problem=

EPS files are common and easy to use in LaTeX documents, but they're only easy to produce if you have direct control over the production process, which is often not the case.

PDF files are common and easy to generate, and sometimes someone gives you a PDF file and you need to incorporate it somehow. But they aren't easy to convert to EPS.

=The Solution=

The solution is, use Ghostscript:

<source lang="bash">
gs -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite -sOutputFile=your-output-file.eps your-source-file.pdf
</source>

or, you can put it in a script and name it <code>pdf2eps</code> and put it on your path:

<source lang="bash">
#!/bin/bash
while test $# -gt 0 ;
do
case $1 in
*.pdf)
/usr/local/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE -dNOCACHE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=epswrite
-sOutputFile=${1%.pdf}.eps $1
;;
*)
echo "File $1 not recognised, skipping"
;;
esac
shift
done
# end of script.
</bash>

Usage: pdf2eps *.pdf