ImageMagick Problem: Converting from PDF to EPS

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Dec 19, 2009, at 10:10, Xin Liu wrote:

> I have a drawing in PDF, which is generated by PDFCreator from a Visio
> drawing in Windows. When I convert it to eps using "convert a.pdf
> a.eps", it looks like a low-resolution bitmap and the PDF's page size
> is kept (i.e., there is a lot of white space). It used to be good,
> i.e., the produced eps file looks as smooth as the original PDF file,
> and the large white margin in the original PDF file is eliminated.
> Does anyone have the same problem? Any clue where the problem is?
> Since ImageMagick uses ghostscript to handle PDF/eps, it might be a
> ghostscript problem as well...
> 
> I've confirmed my PDF file is OK, because the conversion goes well
> when I use the ImagickMagick bundled with Ubuntu-8.04.
> 
> My configuration: Snow Leopard running in 32-bit mode, MacPorts-1.8.1,
> ImageMagick @6.5.8-0_1+q16 (active), ghostscript @8.70_1 (active).

What did you mean, "it used to be good" -- did you mean it worked in a previous version of ImageMagick? or a previous version of Mac OS X? or a different computer?

Can you provide a test image that demonstrates the problem?