Convert EPS files to PDF files while performing psfrag replacements.

When working with Latex it is usually easier to use pdflatex to generate PDF files than going the long route of latex->dvips->ps2pdf.

However, one very useful package, the psfrag package, uses postscript commands and thus requires compiling the document with the long route. One way to circumvent this limitation is to compile a latex document with just the desired figure to create a PDF file of the figure with the replacements already done by psfrag. After that one can use pdflatex and use the PDF version of the figure instead of the original EPS file.

This project was created simple to make this conversion easier.

For each eps file, create a file with the same name and the "psfrags" extension. In this psfrag file, put the psfrag code you would normally put in your latex document. Furthermore, if the first line in the psfrag file starts with a bracket it will be considered as options to be passes to the includegraphics command during conversion. See the test.psfrags file as an example.

With the eps file and the corresponding psfrags file in the same folder, run the epsfrag2pdf.py script and pass the name of the eps file without extension. As an exemple, in the folder where you have all of the files here you can convert the test.eps file eith the comand

./epsfrag2pdf.py test

You can also run the eps2pdf_converter_gui.py to use a simple gui, but it is usually easier to convert running the epsfrag2pdf.py script in the command line.