Comments on: Your friend Convert http://www.astrobetter.com/your-friend-convert/ Tips and Tricks for Professional Astronomers Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:32:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Sean Carey http://www.astrobetter.com/your-friend-convert/#comment-676 Sean Carey Wed, 25 Nov 2009 01:20:07 +0000 http://www.astrobetter.com/?p=939#comment-676 To please my bosses, I have to provide a little higher resolution for some graphics than convert will give you. For making a high-quality png file to dump into a presentation, I use pstopnm and pnmtopng (which are part of the <a href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/doc/index.html" rel="nofollow">netpbm</a> library. These lines will make a decent output from .eps files from IDL (for instance). The netpbm routines have a lot of functionality if you have the time to learn and play with them, > pstopnm -portrait -dpi=600 fig.eps > pnmtopnm fig.eps001.ppm > fig.pnm To please my bosses, I have to provide a little higher resolution for some graphics than convert will give you. For making a high-quality png file to dump into a presentation, I use pstopnm and pnmtopng (which are part of the netpbm library. These lines will make a decent output from .eps files from IDL (for instance). The netpbm routines have a lot of functionality if you have the time to learn and play with them,

> pstopnm -portrait -dpi=600 fig.eps
> pnmtopnm fig.eps001.ppm > fig.pnm

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