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Epspdf and epspdftk
A multiplatform GUI- and command-line converter for [e]ps and pdf.
Siep Kroonenberg,
siepo at cybercomm dot nl
[1]Current online version of this page
Table of Contents
* [2]Features
* [3]Prerequisites
* [4]Installation
* [5]Preview programs
* [6]Files
* [7]Releases
* [8]User Manual
Features
* Distiller
* Works both for documents and for graphics
* Single-page selection
* Also converts from pdf back to PostScript and eps
* Removal of preview headers from eps files
* Cropping extra whitespace
* Grayscaling (sometimes)
* GUI- and command-line version
* GUI-configurable preferences
* Multiplatform: works unchanged on Windows, Unix/Linux and Mac OS X
* Support for TeX Live and MiKTeX
Epspdf has been created with TeX in mind. For TeX and its derivatives, eps
and pdf are the preferred graphics formats.
Ghostscript can convert PostScript to pdf. However, few people are
prepared to deal with the ghostscript command-line. Several command-line
utilities try to help out, e.g. epstopdf, a2ping, and the convert utility
from ImageMagick. But many users simply want a GUI.
Epspdftk adds a GUI, with buttons to select options and with dialogs for
opening and saving files.
A lot more can be done if you can round-trip between PostScript and pdf.
Although Ghostscript can go from pdf to PostScript, pdftops does a much
better job converting text back to PostScript. This opens several new
possibilities: grayscaling and computing a better boundingbox for either
eps- or pdf graphics, and page selection from multipage PostScript- and
pdf documents. Epspdf will use pdftops if it can find it, and silently
does whatever back-and-forth conversions are necessary.
The command-line program epspdf is written in Ruby. Epspdftk, its GUI
companion, in Tcl/Tk. Versions prior to 0.5 were written in Ruby/Tk.
Starting with the 2008 edition, TeX Live includes epspdf as an optional
package, complete with wrapper scripts epspdf and epspdftk which can be
called from the command-line without further ado.
There is also a third-party LaTeX package epspdfconversion which uses
epspdf for on-the-fly conversion of eps graphics to pdf, with options to
control grayscaling and boundingbox generation. See CTAN or your TeX
distribution.
Prerequisites
These are the required and optional prerequisites, which will be checked
for when epspdf starts:
* Ghostscript
* pdftops from the xpdf suite, strongly recommended for better pdf to
PostScript conversions
* Ruby 1.8.x or 1.9.x
* Tcl/Tk is only required for the GUI interface. Versions 8.4 and 8.5
have been tested.
* Optional: viewers for PostScript and pdf
You may not have to install all of these yourself.
Linux
On a current Linux distribution you can almost certainly install
everything from your distribution's package repositories. As to
PostScript- and pdf viewers: epspdf tests for several popular viewers, but
the configuration screen also lets you specify viewers manually.
Mac OS X
Note. Version 0.5.x has not been tested with Tiger.
Ruby and Tcl/Tk are already part of the operating system. Ghostscript is
included in MacTeX, but is also available via e.g. MacPorts. You can get
pdftops from MacPorts as part of either Poppler or xpdf. Another source is
[9]http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/.
If you want to compile xpdf yourself, which is not hard, you can ignore
warnings about X, Motif or FreeType not being found since these missing
libraries won't affect the compilation of pdftops.
Windows (Windows 2000 and later)
By itself, Windows lacks any of the prerequisites of epspdf. However, a
TeX installation may fill some of the gaps, and there is a special Windows
installer which takes care of the Ruby- and Tcl/Tk requirements. See the
table below:
TeX distribution Installer Zipfile
(1) MikTeX and TeX Live ≥ 2008 include a hidden Ghostscript which is
always installed, and which epspdf knows how to find. Caveat: although
older versions of TeX Live include a Ghostscript installer, it is not
impossible to install an older TeX Live without Ghostscript, in which case
you have to provide a Ghostscript yourself.
(2) With TeX Live ≥ 2008, you are better off installing the TeX Live
package, which also gives you wrappers for epspdf and epspdftk for use on
the command-line and for on-the-fly conversions. You still need to install
Ruby and Tcl/Tk.
TeX Live[10](1) No additional Ruby, Tcl/Tk[11](2)
requirements
MiKTeX Pdftops (optional) Pdftops (optional); Ruby,
Tcl/Tk(optional)
Ghostscript, pdftops Ghostscript;
Other/None (optional) pdftops(optional), Ruby,
Tcl/Tk (optional)
URLs for the prerequisites
Ghostscript and GSview ([12]http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/)
Contains sources and Windows binaries. The Windows binaries come
with standard GUI Windows setup programs.
XPDF ([13]http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)
Sources and Windows binaries. The Windows binaries are packaged
into a zipfile, which has to be manually unpacked. The Configure
screen of epspdftk lets you browse for the chosen location. You
have to do this only once.
XPDF, Mac OS X binaries ([14]http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/)
These are universal binaries.
TeX Live ([15]http://www.tug.org/texlive/)
TeX Live ≥ 2008 includes pdftops, Ghostscript and optionally
epspdf.
MacTeX ([16]http://www.tug.org/mactex/)
MacTeX is based on TeX Live. Its set of add-ons includes
Ghostscript, and can be downloaded separately.
The MacPorts Project ([17]http://www.macports.org/)
MacTeX has Poppler- and xpdf packages either of which include
pdftops.
Ruby one-click installer for Windows (
[18]http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/)
Ruby source code ([19]http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/)
For those people who prefer to roll their own...
Tcl Developer Xchange ([20]http://www.tcl.tk/)
ActiveTcl from ActiveState (
[21]http://activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/
Installation
First make sure that the prerequisites are met. Then:
TeX Live ≥ 2008
Use TeX Live's package manager tlmgr for installation.
Windows setup program
Download the [22]epspdftk setup program. You can run it in the usual way,
by double-clicking. The setup program will create entries in your start
menu for epspdftk and for the user manual.
The setup program has been created with [23]NSIS
.
Windows zipfile
Download the [24]epspdf zip file, unpack it somewhere and create a
batchfile epspdf.bat such as
ruby "<path_to_epspdf.rb>" %*
for epspdf.rb, and a batchfile epspdftk.bat
wish85 "<path_to_epspdftk.tcl>" %1
for epspdftk.tcl. The wish executable might also be named wish[.exe] or
wish84[.exe]. The first command-line parameter will be interpreted as
startup directory for the file browser. Make sure that wish85, ruby and
these batchfiles are on your searchpath.
Epspdf[tk] has been tested with Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows 7.
Unix/Linux
Download the [25]tar.gz archive and unpack it in some directory. If you
plan to use epspdf.rb from the command-line, create a shell script epspdf
such as
#!/bin/sh
<path_to_epspdf>/epspdf.rb "$@"
and put it somewhere on your path.
You can do the same for epspdftk. The first command-line parameter will be
interpreted as startup directory for the file browser.
Mac OS X
Although you can install as for Unix/Linux, there is also a compressed
disk image epspdf.x.x.x.dmg.gz which wraps epspdftk into a Max OS X "app".
Double-click once to expand, a second time to mount, then drag
epspdftk.app to the Applications folder.
Epspdf mostly duplicates functionality of Preview. But having an alternate
conversion engine means that you can have another shot at problem files.
Preview programs
Windows
Epspdftk will use the default Windows programs for PostScript and pdf.
Unix/Linux
Supported PostScript viewers include evince, gv and okular. These are also
listed as pdf viewers. Additional pdf viewers are xpdf, kpdf, epdfview and
acroread/Adobe Reader. You can also specify a previewer manually in the
configuration screen; see the [26]user manual..
Mac OS X
Epspdftk uses the default pdf viewer under OS X, usually Preview or Adobe
Reader.
Files
* [27]epspdf.0.5.1.tgz preferred for Unix and Mac OS X
* [28]epspdf.0.5.1.zip preferred for Windows if you don't want to use
the installer below
* [29]epspdf.0.5.1.exe Windows setup program, including Ruby subset. The
epspdftk script has been packaged with a basic Tcl/Tk into a single
exe file (starpack).
* [30]epspdftk.0.5.1.dmg.gz compressed disk image with epspdftk wrapped
into a Mac OS X "app"
Older releases
* [31]epspdftk.0.4.3.dmg.gz; GUI doesn't work on Snow Leopard
* [32]epspdf.0.4.3.tgz for Unix and Mac OS X
* [33]epspdf.0.4.3.zip for Windows
* [34]epspdf.0.4.3.exe Windows setup program
* [35]epspdftk.0.4.2.dmg.gz; tested on Tiger and Leopard
* [36]epspdf.0.3.0.tgz for Unix and Mac OS X
* [37]epspdf.0.3.0.zip for Windows
* [38]epspdf.0.3.0.exe Windows setup program
* [39]epspdf.0.2.12.tgz for Unix, including Mac OS X
* [40]epspdf.0.2.12.zip for Windows
* [41]epspdf.0.2.12.exe Windows setup program
* [42]epspdf.0.2.01.tgz for Unix and Mac OS X
* [43]epspdf.0.2.01.zip for Windows
* [44]epspdf.0.2.exe, Windows setup program
* [45]epspdf_app.0.2.01.zip Mac OS X applet for starting epspdftk.rb
Releases
0.5.1
Current version. Bug fix for boundingbox atend.
0.5
Ruby/Tk GUI replaced with Tcl/Tk GUI. Starpack wrapper for Windows
setup version.
0.4.3
Fixes for compatibility with Ruby 1.9 and, under Windows, for
newer Ghostscript versions. Documentation updates.
0.4.2
More liberal documentation license. Slight documentation updates.
0.4.1
Documentation: added section on bitmaps. Windows setup program:
added missing Tcl/Tk licenses. Mac: double-clickable epspdftk.app
with included epspdftk replaces double-clickable epspdf.app
add-on.
0.4.0
Optionally uses hires boundingbox. Faster startup due to simpler
testing of prerequisites. Grayscaling: support for HSB color
model, although I yet have to encounter a PostScript file using
this. Manual converted to texinfo format. Windows: new "View
with..." button; support for MikTeX's built-in Ghostscript;
streamlined Ruby subset, with Tcl/Tk compiled from source.
0.3.0
Under Windows, now recognizes whether it is embedded in TeX Live
2008 and then can use ghostscript/pdftops from TeX Live. Also
added TeX Live wrapper scripts. Uninstaller for Windows setup
program. Bug fixes: now accepts non-numerical version strings for
pdftops. No longer checks for viewers under Mac OS X.
0.2.12
Bug fixes: log rotation now works. Under Windows, sometimes
boundingboxes couldn't be calculated. This was caused by double
quotes within backquotes. This is now avoided by using short
filenames within backquotes. Minor changes in user guide.
0.2.11
Minor fixes. Changes in documentation.
0.2.10
A computed boundingbox is now expanded by one point in all
directions. This should prevent too-tight cropping. There is no
interface for changing this amount; it can only be changed by
hand-editing the bb_spread option in the .epspdfrc file or in the
HKCU\software\epspdf registry key.
The File Open dialog remembers the last directory visited (between
calls, not between program sessions).
Changes in documentation.
0.2.01
Fixes to the Applescript applet epspdf.app for starting up
epspdftk under Mac OS X. It picks up the terminal search path and
no longer requires correct settings in
$HOME/.MacOSX/environment.plist. Epspdf.app is now packaged
separately, under Mac OS X, and now has an intact resource fork.
It has been removed from the other archives.
0.2
Original release
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Last revised: May 9, 2010
References
Visible links
1. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/
2. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#features
3. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#prerequisites
4. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#install
5. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#preview
6. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#files
7. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#releases
8. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.pdf
9. http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/
10. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#tlnote
11. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/index.html#tlzipnote
12. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
13. http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/
14. http://users.phg-online.de/tk/MOSXS/
15. http://www.tug.org/texlive/
16. http://www.tug.org/mactex/
17. http://www.macports.org/
18. http://rubyforge.org/projects/rubyinstaller/
19. http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/
20. http://www.tcl.tk/
21. http://activestate.com/Products/ActiveTcl/
22. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.1.exe
23. http://nsis.sourceforge.net/
24. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.1.zip
25. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.1.tgz
26. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.pdf
27. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.1.tgz
28. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.1.zip
29. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.5.1.exe
30. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdftk.0.5.1.dmg.gz
31. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdftk.0.4.3.dmg.gz
32. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.4.3.tgz
33. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.4.3.zip
34. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.4.3.exe
35. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdftk.0.4.2.dmg.gz
36. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.3.0.tgz
37. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.3.0.zip
38. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.3.0.exe
39. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.12.tgz
40. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.12.zip
41. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.12.exe
42. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.01.tgz
43. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.01.zip
44. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf.0.2.exe
45. http://tex.aanhet.net/epspdf/epspdf_app.0.2.01.zip
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