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Posted to fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org by Graeme Kidd <co...@hotmail.com> on 2011/02/18 14:42:30 UTC

Best way to handle EPS files


Hi,

I was just wondering what the best way to support EPS graphics was. At the moment I simply output to PostScript and then use Ghost4J to convert it to PDF. However I then loose internal links and PDF bookmarks. 

I was going to look into ImageMagic to convert the EPS files into a more supported vector format but after reading some documentation it appears that it just rasterises the EPS and doesn’t do a proper conversion.

I am tempted to try and convert the EPS graphics into PDF using Ghost4J 
and then using "PDF Image Support Plug-In for Apache FOP" 
(http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/development/fop/index.html) to read the 
converted PDF files. Is this my best option or does anyone else have any better ideas?

Thanks




 		 	   		  
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Re: Best way to handle EPS files

Posted by Jeremias Maerki <de...@jeremias-maerki.ch>.
Hi Graeme

AFAIK, GhostScript does support processing pdfmark extensions. So
converting the EPS directly to PDF using GhostScript/4J seems to be the
way to go. But even then, bookmarks and the links will get lost when the
PDF is embedded using the PDF plug-in.

You can only produce bookmarks using the fo:bookmarks element. And links
can only be produced with fo:basic-link and svg:a.

So you might want to look into converting EPS to SVG (using Inkscape).
Probably as good as it gets.


On 18.02.2011 14:42:30 Graeme Kidd wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I was just wondering what the best way to support EPS graphics was. At
> the moment I simply output to PostScript and then use Ghost4J to
> convert it to PDF. However I then loose internal links and PDF bookmarks. 
> 
> I was going to look into ImageMagic to convert the EPS files into a
> more supported vector format but after reading some documentation it appears
> that it just rasterises the EPS and doesn’t do a proper conversion.
> 
> I am tempted to try and convert the EPS graphics into PDF using Ghost4J 
> and then using "PDF Image Support Plug-In for Apache FOP" 
> (http://www.jeremias-maerki.ch/development/fop/index.html) to read the 
> converted PDF files. Is this my best option or does anyone else have any better ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> 




Jeremias Maerki


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