Postscript conversion to animated GIF

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jayhawk

Postscript conversion to animated GIF

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Hi everyone!

What's the best way to convert relatively huge (up to 60 Mb) "ps and/or eps" Postscript multipage files to animated GIF ones?

Thank you very much indeed :wink:
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Post by magick »

To convert a multipage Postscript to animated GIF sequence, use this command:
  • convert -limit memory 32 -limit map 32 image.ps image.gif
The limit option forces the pixel cache to disk to avoid bringing your computer to its knees during the conversion.
jayhawk

Cache problem

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Hi!

Thank you very much indeed for the answer, but I'm still having problems while converting multipage PS/EPS files to animated GIF's. The error message I got is:

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convert: unable to extend cache `/tmp/magick-XXzqZehn': No such file or directory.
Any idea?
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Set a path for temporary files to a location with plenty of free space. For example,
  • export MAGICK_TMPDIR /data
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