[PLUG] Q: how to prevent jpeg compression of images when going from PS to PDF
Rich Shepard
rshepard at appl-ecosys.com
Thu Mar 30 04:04:12 UTC 2006
On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Christian wrote:
> How are you converting it to a pdf file? Are you printing to pdf? or Are
> you using a conversion utility? I would start by printing to a pdf printer
> and then print it to a file... if you can do that(?). I am not real
> familiar with latex, but am pretty familiar with pdf and postscript.
> Dean S. Messing wrote:
>> Does anyone know how (under linux) to convert the .ps manuscript to
>> .pdf with compression turned off, or at least with lossless
>> compression?
>> latex paper.tex;
>> dvips -o -N0 -Ppdf -G0 paper.dvi;
Dean,
I didn't see your original message; I'm having fits with my system.
Have you tried pdflatex instead of plain latex? I've used dvips with the
default options and had that work just fine. Of course, I don't have 4M .eps
files.
Rich
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