eps to something
I generated an HTML version of a product catalogue and found that the result was very bad due to poor PNG images. To get good PNG images, I had to write some code. Here it is: convertor from eps to other formats.
Using the standard ways
The first and obvious attempt to convert images was:
$ convert file.eps file.png
The result was bad.
I noticed that "epstopdf" generated good pdf and tried to convert from the pdf files, not from the eps files. The result was the same.
Then I thought that "convert" uses "gs", and decided to play with "gs".
gs -dBATCH -sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile=file.png file.eps
The result was the same.
Finally, I investigated the internals of "epstopdf". I found that it uses "gs", but it gives data to "gs" through a pipe, and calculates the bounding box and crops the resulted image on its own. As the PDF result is good, I decided to use the same way for other formats. I've added some code "epstopdf" and renamed it to "epstosmth".
"epstosmth": eps to something
Based on "epstopdf" by Sebastian Rahtz and Heiko Oberdiek. New parameters are added:
--gsdev=: select gs device --gsopt= : additional gs options
To get list of gs devices and options, run "gs --help".
Examples:
eps to png:
$ epstosmth --gsdev=png16m file.eps
eps to jpeg, resolution 85 dpi:
$ epstosmth --gsdev=jpeg --gsopt=-r85x85 file.eps
Error: /undefined in II*
Converting some EPS files gives the error reproduced in the title.
After some researh, I found that these files contains a TIFF preview in some DOS dialect of EPS. Manual fix is possible:
* delete binary header,
* delete binary TIFF data at the end of EPS.
For automatic fixing I found epstool tool. It can extract PostScript from DOS EPS files. I haven't tested the tool yet.