[OS X TeX] OT: looking for a public-domain EPS file editor

[David Watson]

On Apr 26, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Chris Goedde wrote:

> On Apr 25, 2007, at 7:08 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>>
>> Manual solution
>> ===============
>>
>> - Edit bulle-orig.eps manually, to comment out the initmatrix  
>> line, and save the result as bulle-chris.eps.
>>
>> - Use epstopdf (from TeX) to convert to pdf:
>>
>> 	epstopdf --outfile=bulle-chris-epstopdf.pdf bulle-chris.eps
>>
>> The file bulle-chris-epstopdf.pdf has the correct bounding box. If  
>> one attempts to use instead pstopdf (from OS X), Preview (from OS  
>> X) or ps2pdf (from GhostScript), the bounding box remains  
>> incorrect (it is the same as in bulle-orig.eps).
>
> Actually, you can automate this pretty easily. I.e. the one-line  
> shell script:
>
> sed -e 's/initmatrix/%initmatrix/' $1 | epstopdf --filter > $1.pdf
>
> will create foo.eps.pdf out of foo.eps. I'm sure there's an easy  
> way to shorten the name down to foo.pdf, but my shell programming  
> skilz are weak.
>

sed -e 's/initmatrix/%initmatrix/' $1 | epstopdf --fliter >$(basname  
$1 .eps).pdf

???

> -- 
> Chris
>
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