The journal MRM required me to upload figures in eps format instead of pdf. Therefore, I needed to convert my pdfs to eps. I found two different ways:
Method 1
pdf2ps input.pdf ps2eps input.psMethod 2
pdftops -eps input.pdf
Both methods create input.eps. Apparently method 2 with pdftops has several advantages, see here.
To convert a pdf to other formats there is imagemagick, which offers the simple command
convert input.pdf output.[png|jpg]with many possible options, e.g.:
- “-density 300”, which sets the dpi
- “-trim”, which removes any edge pixels that are the same color as the corner pixels
- “-quality 100” sets the JPEG compression quality in percent
- see $ man imagemagick
(For the journal article I uploaded a latex source that was compiled on there server. From the log it was apparent that the eps files got converted back to pdf (like pdflatex does), so I think there is actually no necessity for MRM to require eps instead of pdf.)