convert is bitmapping my fonts during PS -> EPS conversion

I'm converting some Illustrator files to EPS with:
    convert foo.ai foo.eps

These come out great... but the text is a bit blocky.  Each
glyph has been
converted to a small bitmap.
Is there a way to stop this?  Or at least get a warning it
is happening?

The font in question is NOT installed on the local computer.
 gs/gv are
installed.
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brycenesbitt on  wrote...
| 
| I'm converting some Illustrator files to EPS with:
|     convert foo.ai foo.eps
| 
| These come out great... but the text is a bit blocky. 
Each glyph has been
| converted to a small bitmap.
| Is there a way to stop this?  Or at least get a warning it
is happening?
| 
| The font in question is NOT installed on the local
computer.  gs/gv are
| installed.

ImageMagick is NOT designed for vector formats like
these...

For more info on why see...
  IM Examples, Common Image Formats
    A word about Vector Image formats
       http
://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#vector

You can do it but it will come out blocky.
If you still want to do it add a higher -denstity setting
first..

   convert -density 600 foo.ai foo.eps

Where 600 is the output resolution of your printer or other
device.

NOTE your postscript file will probbaly be very BIG.

You are better of getting Illustrator to convert to
postscript
instead, as it will generate vector postscript.


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Anthony Thyssen wrote:
> 
> ImageMagick is NOT designed for vector formats like
these...
> ...You can do it but it will come out blocky.
> If you still want to do it add a higher -denstity
setting first..
> 
>    convert -density 600 foo.ai foo.eps
> 
> Where 600 is the output resolution of your printer or
other device.
> 
> NOTE your postscript file will probably be very BIG.
> 
> You are better of getting Illustrator to convert to
postscript
> instead, as it will generate vector postscript.
> 

The problem is that Illustrator is not scriptable in this
way, so converting
200 images once a month is too much work.

But ImageMagick is doing much more than simple
rasterization.  When I
convert to EPS I get a fully vector result... complete with
splines and
paths.  Only the font glyphs have been rasterized, one
bitmap per character.

And the density flag has no effect:
> convert -density 100 podmaps/map_1_p.ai
map_1_p_100.eps
> convert -density 600 podmaps/map_1_p.ai map_1_p_600eps
> ls -la
-rw-r--r-- 1 bryce users 10090 2007-02-15 09:13
map_1_p_600.eps
-rw-r--r-- 1 bryce users 10090 2007-02-15 09:12
map_1_p_100.eps

So the question remains: how can one control the font
rasterization
separately from the vector conversion to EPS.  Or, where can
I find another
AI to EPS tool (and yes, I have tried pstoedit, which is
unmaintained and
broken).
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On 2/15/07, brycenesbitt <bryce1obviously.com> wrote:
> Anthony Thyssen wrote:
> >
> > ImageMagick is NOT designed for vector formats
like these...
> >
> > You are better of getting Illustrator to convert
to postscript
> > instead, as it will generate vector postscript.
> >
>
> The problem is that Illustrator is not scriptable in
this way, so converting
> 200 images once a month is too much work.

What version of Illustrator are you using? Here's a script
for CS2
that will save the current document as EPS:

// Save a document to the home folder of the current user
// as EPS with specific options
var newFile = new File("~/sample.eps");
var saveDoc;
if ( app.documents.length == 0 )
    saveDoc = app.documents.add();
else
    saveDoc = app.activeDocument;
var saveOpts = new EPSSaveOptions();
saveOpts.cmykPostScript = true;
saveOpts.compatibility = Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR8;
saveOpts.embedAllFonts = true;
saveDoc.saveAs( newFile, saveOpts );

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Gabe Schaffer-3 wrote:
> 
> What version of Illustrator are you using? Here's a
script for CS2
> that will save the current document as EPS:
> 
> // Save a document to the home folder of the current
user
> // as EPS with specific options
> var newFile = new File("~/sample.eps");
> var saveDoc;
> if ( app.documents.length == 0 )
>     saveDoc = app.documents.add();
> else
>     saveDoc = app.activeDocument;
> var saveOpts = new EPSSaveOptions();
> saveOpts.cmykPostScript = true;
> saveOpts.compatibility = Compatibility.ILLUSTRATOR8;
> saveOpts.embedAllFonts = true;
> saveDoc.saveAs( newFile, saveOpts );
> 

Thanks.  While that does not work within our environment, it
is good to know
about the capability.
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Anthony Thyssen wrote:
> 
> The only thing I can think of is that it is doing some
sort of direct
> conversion via a delegate, which again I do not (did
not) thing it would
> do.
> 
> Can you provide a link, or mail directly to me the
'.ai' file you are
> using?
> 

It is ghostscript that seems to be bitmapping the glyphs, on
behalf of
Magick/convert.
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