Opened 17 years ago
Last modified 7 years ago
#1244 new enhancement
create an .eps image translator
| Reported by: | wkornewald | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | normal | Milestone: | Unscheduled |
| Component: | Add-Ons/Translators | Version: | R1/pre-alpha1 |
| Keywords: | Cc: | stippi | |
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Platform: | All |
Description
Many LaTeX users still need .eps because that's the only format that the latex command understands (pdflatex supports other image formats, but not .eps), so I think we should have such a translator.
Stephan, did you not have such a translator somewhere?
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Change History (10)
comment:1 by , 17 years ago
follow-up: 4 comment:2 by , 17 years ago
No, that was Sander Stocks (Becasso) if my memory does not fail me. Nice guy, maybe contact him?
I have an almost working PSD translator, it just doesn't work correctly when saving files with compression turned on...
comment:3 by , 17 years ago
EPS is/was used frequently in print/publishing. Around 2000 I worked for a marketing company where EPS was used a lot. They were ordinary people using QuarkXpress, Illustrator, etc. I doubt that any of them knew LaTeX. :))
comment:4 by , 17 years ago
Replying to stippi:
No, that was Sander Stocks (Becasso) if my memory does not fail me. Nice guy, maybe contact him?
Yes, please. His website seems to be down and I don't know where to find his email. Could you please either contact him or give me his email, so I can ask him?
I have an almost working PSD translator, it just doesn't work correctly when saving files with compression turned on...
Great! That would be useful, too. Hmm, our translators should be extended to support layers.
comment:5 by , 17 years ago
Is EPS a vector format ? Then we could also write an EPS <-> BPicture translator. IIRC Gobe DID came with one ?
comment:7 by , 17 years ago
| Milestone: | R1 → Unscheduled |
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| Owner: | removed |
by , 11 years ago
| Attachment: | Translators.zip added |
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Translators code BeCasso from Sanders Stoks, he's agreed to release it under MIT license.
comment:8 by , 11 years ago
Added source code for the Translators that Sanders Stoks including with BeCasso. He asks forgiveness for his poor coding style all those years ago. He's ok with releasing under the MIT license.
comment:9 by , 11 years ago
It depends on Ghostscript 7, but it's always good to have some starting point.
I'm not sure if it should be part of R1, but since scientists and science students are more tech-savvy than the average user I think they could be part of our potential target audience and they could need to handle .eps images.