[reportlab-users] newby: is importing eps possible?

[Tim Roberts]

On Mon, 23 May 2005 04:10:05 -0700, <andy at reportlab.com> wrote:

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>>> So my question: is there any way to embed eps files in pdfs generated by pdfgen/platipus?
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>No.  You would need to use an external application to preprocess
>them to a bitmap.
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I've often wondered why that was so.  EPS and PDF are natural cousins; a 
PDF is little more than an EPS with a bit of additional wrapping.  It 
should be possible to embed an EPS without much more than a transform 
matrix to set the scale.

Of course, if I think it's so simple, why don't I just go do it?

-- 
Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.