[tex-live] TeX-live updates on Solaris10?

[Michael E. Thomadakis]

To answer my own question:

/usr/local/bin/gs -dNOPAUSE  -dBATCH \
                -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 \
		-sDEVICE=pngalpha -sOutputFile=$Fpng $Fpdf


Actually this should be useful to all those who have tried to create graphical 
elements with OOffice 3.2.1 and wanted to import them seemlessly 
in as .eps or .pdf images using latex or pdflatex respectively and obtain 
decent results.

1) Draw figure in OO 3.2.1 (earlier may have font rendering issues)

2) Ctrl-A to grab single figure and save as PDF + Option 'selected' into say G.PDF 

3) pdftops -eps G.PDF G.PS ;		# create PS as eps 

4) ps2eps -f G.PS ;			# save to an eps with corrected BB

5) epstopdf --outfile=G.pdf F.eps 	# to .pdf with corrected BB

6) gs -dNOPAUSE  -dBATCH \                                                   
                                              
                -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 \                    
                                                          
                -sDEVICE=pngalpha -sOutputFile=G.png G.pdf

					# if you need a .png

Now you can include the G.eps, G.pdf or G.png in latex/pdflatex or HTML and 
have the correct BB. 

Regards

Michael Thomadakis

	
On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Michael E. Thomadakis wrote:

| Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:18:19 -0500 (CDT)
| From: Michael E. Thomadakis <miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>
| To: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>
| Cc: tex-live at tug.org
| Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeX-live updates on Solaris10?
| 
| Manuel,
| 
| Thanks ... I hope that TL2010 is 'uneventful' and I am looking forward to 
| installing it. 
| 
| I have 1 last irrelevant Q: is there any good in your oppinion open source 
| code to translate PDF to PNG ? I tried the 'convert' but it does not seem to 
| do anti-aliasing for text vertically oriented.
| 
| thanks again
| 
| Michael
| 
| 
| On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
| 
| | Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 18:50:24 +0200
| | From: Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>
| | To: Michael E. Thomadakis <miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>
| | Cc: tex-live at tug.org
| | Subject: Re: [tex-live] TeX-live updates on Solaris10?
| | 
| | Le 13/08/2010 18:46, Michael E. Thomadakis a écrit :
| | > BTW are there any real changes in TeX ? I saw the vieo presentation by D. 
| | > Knuth who was obviously being facetious ...
| | > 
| | Sure :-)
| | 
| | You'll find a summary of the actual changes in the TL 2010 documentation:
| | 
| | http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/texmf/doc/texlive/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-7800010.2
| | 
| | hth,
| | Manuel.
| | 
| 

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