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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?

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');

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.