[PLUG] Converting Image File Formats

[Rich Shepard]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2016, King Beowulf wrote:

> This will depend on whether you are going for screen (web) or printer
> output, dpi required, and the pdf contents (embedded ps text or compressed
> jpg images) and original pdf data source. IIRC, ghostscipt may deal with
> ps based pdf files better, while imagemagick will handle compressed omage
> files better.
>
> I would try both a see which one is better for my needs.  Or, even better,
> if I had the original files/data used to generate the pdf, I'd use
> imagemagick or gimp to generate image files for latex.

   Thanks, Ed.

   The figures were generated using the R command,
pdf("output-filename.pdf"), and the ultimate output will be printed in a
scientific journal.

   I'll try pdf2ps; the ImageMagick output is not as sharp as the PDF
version.

Rich