scotty@pnet02.cts.com (Scott Hoisington) (03/27/89)
I need a program that can read and write encapsulated Postscript files for the Amiga. How about a program that will take a raw Postscript file and display/save as IFF? How about world peace, clean air and an Amiga A3000? UUCP: ...!crash!pro-freedom!scotty INET: scotty@pro-freedom.cts.com V.President Vancouver Area Amiga Users Group | Tempered Design
paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) (03/28/89)
In article <13811@gryphon.COM> scotty@pnet02.cts.com (Scott Hoisington) writes:
->I need a program that can read and write encapsulated Postscript files for
->the Amiga. How about a program that will take a raw Postscript file and
->display/save as IFF?
It is relatively straight forward to write an encapsulated PostScript file.
The program iff2ps does that, and possibly some others. iff2ps also reads
in an encapsulated PostScript file, but does not interpret it. To interpret
a PostScript file ( which is also required to convert to IFF ) would
require the program to UNDERSTAND PostScript, in other words it has to
include a full intepreter. At this time I don't know of any program
that can do this on the Amiga.
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ARPA: paolucci@snll-arpagw.llnl.govscott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) (03/29/89)
In article <85@snll-arpagw.UUCP> paolucci@snll-arpagw.UUCP (Sam Paolucci) writes: >In article <13811@gryphon.COM> scotty@pnet02.cts.com (Scott Hoisington) writes: >->I need a program that can read and write encapsulated Postscript files for >->the Amiga. >... To interpret >a PostScript file ( which is also required to convert to IFF ) would >require the program to UNDERSTAND PostScript, in other words it has to >include a full intepreter. At this time I don't know of any program >that can do this on the Amiga. EPSF files generally contain textual Postscript code along with an optional bitmap screen dump. On a Macintosh, a PICT resource fork is usually included. And under MS-DOS, a header can be added to the .EPS file which contains a pointer to an MS Windows Metafile or TIFF section. So, if you are trying to read an EPSF file, you need to indicate whether it is sufficient to accept the bitmap, or convert the PICT/MSMF/TIFF/etc, if any. Or are you interested in intepreting the Postscript somehow? If you need to convert the Postscript, then you might want to look at a product called ProScript from Pixelations (Northboro, MA). This product presumably allows you to output Postscript to any printer (dot-matrix). There may be a mechanism to get a bitmap out of it, as well. (Not an endorsement- I've merely seen the product on dealer shelves.) There are also a couple of PD/Copylefted Postscript interpreters around, but they don't port easily to the Amiga. -scott
jms@antares.UUCP (Joe Smith) (03/30/89)
In article <940@applix.UUCP> scott@applix.UUCP (Scott Evernden) writes: >If you need to convert the Postscript, then you might want to look at a >product called ProScript from Pixelations (Northboro, MA). This product >presumably allows you to output Postscript to any printer (dot-matrix). And then there's ProScript from New Horizons Software Inc (Austin, TX) which allows ProWrite to create Postscript files. It allows the use of normal Postscipt fonts, Amiga fonts (as bitmaps), and IFF images (as bitmaps). I wonder which "proscript" came first. -- Joe Smith (408)922-6220 | jms@antares.Tymnet.COM or jms@opus.Tymnet.COM McDonnell Douglas FSCO | UUCP: ...!{ames,pyramid}!oliveb!tymix!antares!jms PO Box 49019, MS-D21 | PDP-10:JMS@F74.Tymnet.COM CA license plate:"POPJ P," San Jose, CA 95161-9019 | narrator.device: "I didn't say that, my Amiga did!"