ps2pdf (vector to vector)

[macmagick]

Is ist possible to configure the delegates.xml so that an eps as input is not beeing rasterized while beeing converted to pdf (or eps again).

I can convert my eps to pdf as root in my shell using ps2pdf – and everything is perfect. How to do the same from within Imagick or PHP?

[mkoppanen]

Hi,

you can add new delegates into the delegates.xml file. You can read using the delegate using:

$im->newPseudoImage(100,100, 'xyz:file.jpg');

and writing

$im->writeImage('xyz:file.jpg');

[macmagick]

That makes some things clear. By using readImageBlob() the eps is beeing rasterized already?

There's nothing like a newPseudoImageBlob()? Actually my input is pure postscript (from a variable). Do I have to write the variable down by like tempnam() and writing/reading through a handle etc? I configured <delegate decode="eps" encode="pdf" ...> to use ps2pdf and did the following:

- tempfile $temp by tempnam()
- fwrite my var (postscript as string) into $temp
- $im->newPseudoImage(100,100,"eps:".$temp);
- $im->writeImage("pdf:mypdf.pdf")

The resulting mypdf.pdf is rasterized!

I tried the same with eps2ps: there I got my eps in the left down corner on a A4 page: just telling you this for it shows the delegates are beeing used – sort of?

My delegation: <delegate decode="eps" encode="pdf" mode="bi" command=""/usr/local/bin/ps2pdf" -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite" "-sOutputFile=%o" "-f%i""/>

And still: I'd prefer not to write any tempfiles by myself.