Question about EPS conversion during ePUB Publishing

[rarmstrong]

Hi Everyone,

We have traditionally published our content to PDF and so far we use EPS as the standard image format as this renders the best result. We did toy with SVG at one point, but Arbortext just rastorized it (at least at the time it did when we used V6.0).

We are embarking on producing ePUB's, but the resulting PNG files are published at 96 DPI which is too low.

Looking at the Arbortext manuals, there is a setting:

set defaultprintdpi

set defaultprintdpi= value

This command specifies the resolution value in images resulting from PTC Arbortext Editor converting SVG and PVZ images for print and PDF output. value is a positive integer specifying the resolution in dpi (dots per inch). If defaultprintdpi is not set, PTC Arbortext Editor assumes a value of 300.

However by the manual's own admission this only applies to SVG and PVZ images and only when publishing to PDF.

Is there another way to configure how Arbortext converts EPS to PNG when publishing to ePUB? Or are we stuck coming up with another image tool that must run during the publishing flow?

This relates to the Product Idea Better conversion of EPS files in Web output‌.

Thanks in advance,

Rob.

[GarethOakes · Accepted solution]

I've not heard of any improvements in this area. "set defaultprintdpi" is only useful when printing (e.g. to PDF), it won't affect EPUB output.

[rarmstrong]

We have decided to use Imagemagik and some processing during the publishing cycle to convert the EPS to  PNG with a suitable quality.

Thanks,

Rob.