Converting LaTeX .eps files to .png files
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Motivation: hermes does not convert .eps files to .png files, just assumes the .png files are there.
Thus, I googled for utilities to do the conversion. Ended up finding eps2png here : http://search.cpan.org/~jv/eps2png-2.5/script/eps2png.
Following the install instructions in the README (from the tarball), I installed eps2png (a PERL script) on stevens /usr/local/bin.
eps2png failed for some of Ray's .eps files, which displayed fine but had a slightly mangled first line. I changed eps2png to be more forgiving about the first line and called it eps2png-bnw, which now handles all of Ray's .eps files.
eps2png-bnw failed for some of Don Johnson's .eps files.
Back to Square 1.
The standard way to convert images on Linux is to use ImageMagik's command line convert. I vaguely recall that convert had problems with Ray's eps files.
Command mogrify is convert packaged to handle multiple files at once e.g.
mogrify -format png *.eps
mogrify converted Don's eps files without incidence. TO DO: see what mogrify does to ray's eps files.
