nih-at / img2eps

Raster image to EPS convert (deprecated)

Development on this project has stopped. It will no longer be updated.

This is img2eps, a raster image to EPSF converter.

img2eps packages raster images into EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) files, using whatever PostScript features are advantageous. If possible, the compressed image data is copied directly to the EPS file.

Supported image file formats are GIF, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PNG, TIFF, and XPM.

For generic installation instructions, see file INSTALL; for documentation read the man page; for internal documentation see the documents in the doc subdirectory.

If you make a binary distribution, please include a pointer to the distribution site: http://nih.at/img2eps

Mail suggestions and bug reports to [e-mail].

Requirements

img2eps does not require the following packages, but certain features will be omitted if they are missing:

• For image format support: libpng, jpeg, jasper, tiff, and either giflib or libungif.

• For compression support: zlib (FlateEncode), jpeg (DCTEncode).

• For EXIF support (to auto-rotate jpeg images): libexif.

img2eps's configure script searches for these libraries with pkg-config (if the library supports it) and in the directories the compiler searches. If you have them installed elsewhere, pass CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS to configure to make the compiler find them. For example, if you have the libraries installed in /usr/local, the following should work:

CPFLAGS='-I/usr/local/include' LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib' ./configure

If your runtime linker needs to be told to search extra directories too (img2eps will link in that case, but complain about missing libraries when run), either of the following LDFLAGS settings should work:

LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -R/usr/local/lib'
LDFLAGS='-L/usr/local/lib -Wl,-R/usr/local/lib'

(The first works on Solaris, the second on NetBSD.)