Tag: pdf

Malware in PDFCreator

On one of our computers, some websites behaved very weird; pages could not be found and they were redirected to mybrowserbar.com. I found this on Wikipedia about PDFCreator: Read More »
By halfgaar, 1 year ago, on October 05, 2010, at 13:10 | No comments

ImageMagick can convert PDF to anything

I encountered one of those scans which was shared as a single-page PDF. I don't want it that way, because I want to include it in a web page. I want a simple bitmap image. ImageMagick comes to the rescue: Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 3 years ago, on February 03, 2009, at 21:02 | No comments

eps2eps to the rescue when epstopdf complains of no bounding box

PDFLaTeX doesn't like encapsulated postscript images. If you want to use .eps files with pdflatex, you can convert these files to PDF using Sebastian Rahtz' epstopdf, and then remove all .eps file extensions from the image locations in your .tex source files. Then, the latex command will look for .eps file and the pdflatex command will look for .pdf, .jpg and .png files. Read More »
By Rowan Rodrik, 5 years ago, on March 02, 2007, at 23:03 | No comments