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Re: EPS to PDF Watch Folder Dilemma
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Re: EPS to PDF Watch Folder Dilemma


  • Subject: Re: EPS to PDF Watch Folder Dilemma
  • From: Tom Langton <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:19:53 -0500
  • Thread-topic: EPS to PDF Watch Folder Dilemma

Look a little deeper ;)

GhostScript is a kind of public domain PostScript rip. I convert pdf.s to
jpg.s all day long (using Lasso as middleware, on a Mac Mini).

It's not at all pretty or directly applescriptable, but it is fast. Finding
just the right way to get the right version installed was a pain, but is
easily testable from the command line once installed. Test file I've used is
a little tiny postscript text file that instantly rips to jpg.

Here's the link that spurred me on:
http://old.nabble.com/PDF-to-image...-tt16998740.html#a17003712

Here's the how to:
http://ghostscript.com/doc/8.54/Use.htm

Good luck with your project.

Tom Langton

On 3/11/10 12:44 PM, "Richard Lake" <email@hidden> wrote:

> 5. Thanks Tom, but it didn't really address my problem. Quick glimpse at
> Ghostscript tells me that it is for converting bitmap graphics/placed images
> and not vectored/scalable formats such as EPS; to PDF.




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