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It is designed to provide the best quality PDF and raster files using <I>ghostscript</I><A NAME="29959"></A> as a rendering engine. The program <A NAME="tex2html1684" HREF="../man/ps2raster.html"><I><B>ps2raster</B></I></A><A NAME="29963"></A> avoids anti-aliasing and lossy compression techniques that are default to <I>ghostscript</I><A NAME="29967"></A> and includes the fonts into the resulting PDF file to ensure portability. By default the fonts are rendered at 720 dots-per-inch in a PDF file and images are sampled to 300 dpi, but that can be changed with the <B>-E</B> option. Simply run <PRE> ps2raster -A -P -Tf *.ps </PRE>to convert all <I>PostScript</I> files to PDF while cropping it to the smallest possible BoundingBox. Or use the <B>-Tg</B> option to convert your files to PNG. <P> The <B>-P</B> option of <A NAME="tex2html1685" HREF="../man/ps2raster.html"><I><B>ps2raster</B></I></A><A NAME="29975"></A> may also come in handy. When you have <I>not</I> supplied the <B>-P</B> option in your first <A NAME="tex2html1686" HREF="http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu"><B>GMT</B></A> plot command, your plot will be in Landscape mode. That means that the plot will be rotated 90 degrees (anti-clockwise) to fit on a Portrait mode page when coming out of the printer. The <B>-P</B> option of <A NAME="tex2html1687" HREF="../man/ps2raster.html"><I><B>ps2raster</B></I></A><A NAME="29985"></A> will undo that rotation, so that you do not have to do so within your document. This will only affect Landscape plots; Portrait plots will not be rotated. <P> <HR> <!--Navigation Panel--> <A NAME="tex2html5335" HREF="node192.html"> <IMG WIDTH="37" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="next" SRC="next.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html5329" HREF="node189.html"> <IMG WIDTH="26" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="up" SRC="up.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html5325" HREF="node190.html"> <IMG WIDTH="63" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="previous" SRC="prev.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html5331" HREF="node1.html"> <IMG WIDTH="65" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="contents" SRC="contents.png"></A> <A NAME="tex2html5333" HREF="node255.html"> <IMG WIDTH="43" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="BOTTOM" BORDER="0" ALT="index" SRC="index.png"></A> <BR> <B> Next:</B> <A NAME="tex2html5336" HREF="node192.html">C.3 Examples</A> <B> Up:</B> <A NAME="tex2html5330" HREF="node189.html">C.2 Converting GMT PostScript</A> <B> Previous:</B> <A NAME="tex2html5326" HREF="node190.html">C.2.1 When converting or</A> <B> <A NAME="tex2html5332" HREF="node1.html">Contents</A></B> <B> <A NAME="tex2html5334" HREF="node255.html">Index</A></B> <!--End of Navigation Panel--> <ADDRESS> Paul Wessel 2010-01-14 </ADDRESS> </BODY> </HTML>
