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Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files [message #74030 is a reply to message #74025]

Thu, 16 December 2010 10:02

penteado
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On Dec 16, 3:51 pm, JM <j...@dmu.ac.uk> wrote:
> On the Mac I don't believe there can be many reasons to keep any eps
> files, unless it's to be compatible with some other software and/or
> collaborators. I tail all my plotting procedures with a command that
> SPAWNS epstopdf to convert the postscript graphic to PDF and then
> delete the postscript. The PDF filesize is always smaller, sometimes
> by a huge margin, and, of course, the PDF graphic can be used in
> Pages, Keynote, TeXShop, Omnigraffle, etc.

PDF, by its nature, is not very amenable to be embedded in other
things. That is the whole point of the E in EPS (encapsulated).

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		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: Maarten[1] on Fri, 17 December 2010 01:51
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: JM[1] on Fri, 17 December 2010 00:42
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: penteado on Thu, 16 December 2010 18:34
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: Jeremy Bailin on Thu, 16 December 2010 18:14
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: JM[1] on Thu, 16 December 2010 14:28
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: David Gell on Thu, 16 December 2010 14:19
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Thu, 16 December 2010 12:42
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: JM[1] on Thu, 16 December 2010 12:09
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: penteado on Thu, 16 December 2010 10:02
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: JM[1] on Thu, 16 December 2010 09:51
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: natha on Thu, 16 December 2010 09:51
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: Carsten Lechte on Thu, 16 December 2010 08:46
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 16 December 2010 08:08
		Re: Viewing and Printing PostScript Files By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Mon, 20 December 2010 07:27

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