Question

I’m using a mac and looking to batch convert a large amount of eps files and create jpg previews of each. I’m looking for preferably a command-line utility, or some type of workflow to easily batch a large number of files.

Thanks for any ideas or input

Answer 1

Like codelogic mentioned, sips is a good tool for this. However, it doesn’t support EPS natively, so you need to convert to PDF first.

If you’re on Tiger or Leopard, something like the following should work:

mkdir pdf jpg  cd pdf echo ../eps/*.eps | xargs -n1 pstopdf cd ..   sips -s format jpeg *.pdf --out jpg/ 

Assuming your EPS files are in the current directory, this will first convert them all to pdf, storing them in the pdf/ directory, then convert each PDF to a JPEG file in the jpg/ directory.