[texhax] question on importing *.eps to Latex

[Tom Schneider]

Terrence E. Murphy <tmurphy at isye.gatech.edu>:

> I have a moderately complex graphic available as .jpeg or .bmap that I
> want to incorporate into a Latex document.
> 
> I can use GIMP to save it as .ps. However Ghostscript tells me that it
> can't be converted to  .eps and if I try to import it using
> \includegraphics
> I only get an empty space.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to handle this?

Try the convert routine imagemagick, it's wonderful for all kinds of
conversions:

http://imagemagick.org/

However if it calls the same ghostscript, you may need to find out why
ghostscript objects.

Tom

  Dr. Thomas D. Schneider
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