An .EPS to .PDF converter (using LaTeX!)
[This article was first published on Tales of R » R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page here)
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.
I am about to go on a short holiday, so I was tidying the code lines I had scattered around before leaving… And I found this: a minimal EPS to PDF converter, which is barely a LaTeX template.
It is intended for transforming an .EPS graph to the .PDF format. You can copy & paste this whole code into a blank text file (but with .TEX extension) and run it with a TeX editor. To install and use LaTeX, here it is a previous post about it.
When you have compiled it, you can search in the same file’s directory for the newly created PDF graph!
This file contains bidirectional Unicode text that may be interpreted or compiled differently than what appears below. To review, open the file in an editor that reveals hidden Unicode characters.
Learn more about bidirectional Unicode characters
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% | |
%% EPS TO PDF CONVERTER %% | |
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% | |
% Author: Mareviv | |
% Under GNU General Public License | |
% Paste this document entirely into a file with .TEX extension (.tex). Open it with TeXworks | |
% Tips for starting with LaTeX: http://talesofr.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/learning-latex-from-scratch/ | |
\documentclass{article} | |
\usepackage{graphicx} % support the \includegraphics command and options | |
\usepackage{epstopdf} % Included EPS files automatically converted to PDF to include with pdflatex | |
\begin{document} | |
This is an .EPS to .PDF converter, using a minimal {\LaTeX} document. | |
Place the .EPS file in the same folder as this converter. | |
Insert the .EPS figure name inside the curly brackets (in this case rnetwork2). | |
\begin{figure} | |
\centering | |
\includegraphics[width=1.1\linewidth]{rnetwork2} | |
\caption{A network graph.} | |
\end{figure} | |
Copy and paste the following code to convert more images at the same time: | |
\begin{figure} | |
\centering | |
\includegraphics[width=1.1\linewidth]{rnetwork2} | |
\caption{Another network graph.} | |
\end{figure} | |
\end{document} |

To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: Tales of R » R.
R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-science job.
Want to share your content on R-bloggers? click here if you have a blog, or here if you don't.