Converting files ( to .eps or pdf) format

For scientific publications, figures are often asked in .eps format.

To do this (from formats like .tif/.jpg/.png), in linux, the package "convert" can be used.

Try this for a file name Figure1.tif

convert Figure1.tif Figure1.eps

This will produce a Figure1.eps file in the current directory.


Some times, you may want to convert a text file (like code) which is written using vim/emacs editor.

This can be done using LibreOffice (a open source) application.

In terminal, 

libreoffice --convert-to "pdf" fileName.txt

The output will be filename.pdf 

Or, open the file in LibreOffice and save as pdf.


If all these doesn't work, some times, I use following online site to convert to eps.

https://image.online-convert.com/convert-to-eps

In this site, you can specify dpi and many attributes of the output file.