# A.1 Conversion of jpeg images to PostScript

The need to convert bitmap images – for example, those in jpeg format – into PostScript representations is commonly encountered by users of the latex typesetting system, since latex’s `includegraphics` command can only incorporate Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) images into documents. A small number of graphics packages provide facilities for making such conversions, including ImageMagick’s `convert` command, but these almost invariable produce excessively large PostScript files on account of their failure to use PostScript’s native facilities for image compression. Pyxplot’s `image` command can in many cases perform much more efficient conversion:

    set output image.eps
    image 'image.jpg' width 10