Can I convert EPS to JPG Ignoring clipping path?

[fcaserio]

When I convert an EPS file with a clipping path to JPG the pixels outside the clipping patch are discarded.
Is there any way to make the conversion keeping the info outside the clipping path?
obs: it is good that the clipping path remains on the converted image, but I have to mantain all the original pixels of the image.

[fcaserio]

Can anybody help me? I've been trying lots os options, but the conversion allways discards the pixels outside the path.
My original files are EPS created by Photoshop 7 with an unique path.
The converted JPG created has a white area outside the path, and I want to keep the original background of the image.

Any help or comment is wellcome

[pjvedder]

I'm having the exact same problem here, and I could use an answer to this problem myself. Here is the command line I'm using to convert an eps to a jpg:

convert GoldRings2.eps GoldRings2.jpg

Here is the image I'm using:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14916695/GoldRings2.eps

and the resulting bad jpg:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/14916695/GoldRings2.jpg

I'm using ImageMagick 6.7.0-8 Q16 and GhostScript 9.02

Any help would be greatly appreciated... thanks!

[fmw42]

try adding +clip-path or +profile * or -strip and see if any of those help (though I believe in newer IM, -strip does not remove the profiles, but I am not sure).

[pjvedder]

Thanks for the quick reply, fmw42. Unfortunately, none of those methods work, and I'm still left with the same resulting jpg.

[fmw42]

when I do

convert GoldRings2.eps -strip GoldRings2a.eps

and look at the verbose info (identify -verbose image), the clipping path is gone in the latter. When displayed the two images look very different as the -strip has changed the image between rgb and cmyk (so one needs to add -colorspace rgb)

I am on IM 6.7.0.8 Q16 Mac OSX Tiger.

I cannot say what is going on as I have never used clipping paths. But I can say that the clipping path and other additional info has been removed by -strip.


Likewise the clipping path is gone in the second of these jpgs:

convert -density 72 GoldRings2.eps GoldRings2.jpg
convert -density 72 -colorspace rgb GoldRings2.eps -strip GoldRings2b.jpg

though the images look very similar.

Sorry I really know little about clipping paths, so these are just tests for me.

P.S. From http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... #clip-path

Clip along a named path from the 8BImageMagick profile.

So it would appear that IM gets the clipping path from the 8BIM profile and not the xml clipping path in your file:

identify -verbose GoldRings2.eps
...

Clipping path:
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