Resizing Eps/ps files

[vancheese]

Hi people

To publish a scientific article, I need to rescale all my eps figures to the appropriate size. I've tried googling around for ghostscript solution not no avail. Importing into inkscape isn't an option as it doesn't successfully import the figure

Does anyone have any suggestions or recipes

Cheers

Andy

[Chronon]

If you're using LaTeX it's trivial. Just do something like this:

  \includegraphics[width=60mm]{myfig.eps}

[vancheese]

Yes, I know, but the journal wants the picture files submitted in the right size!
For 95% of the time, that would work perfectly

[Chronon]

What do you mean by the right size? Do you mean the embedded preview image? Or are they not able to process eps files?

I don't really understand why setting the width of the graphic isn't acceptable here.

[anglican]

Yes, I know, but the journal wants the picture files submitted in the right size!
For 95% of the time, that would work perfectly

How about something like:

pstops 1:0@0.8 infile.ps outfile.ps

which would resize all pages in infile.ps to 80% of their original size in outfile.ps.

H

[Chronon]

Oh, that's a good program to know about.

Still, I don't get why scaling inside of the LaTeX document isn't acceptable. I haven't heard of this before. Asking you to scale the EPS sounds a lot like someone asking you to scale a TrueType font.

[ppm]

Maybe Image Magick would be an option for the job. Open your image

display myimage.eps

Resize and export it as a eps file.

[vancheese]

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Still, I don't get why scaling inside of the LaTeX document isn't acceptable. I haven't heard of this before. Asking you to scale the EPS sounds a lot like someone asking you to scale a TrueType font.

I know, But this journal is a bit silly, I am using their latex style file and it differs from what they ask from in the authors' guidelines

[frisket]

Hi people

To publish a scientific article, I need to rescale all my eps figures to the appropriate size. I've tried googling around for ghostscript solution not no avail. Importing into inkscape isn't an option as it doesn't successfully import the figure

Does anyone have any suggestions or recipes

Cheers

Andy

Install ImageMagick and type

convert myfile.eps -resize 75% myfile-smaller.eps

(or whatever)