leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Leila Burrell-Davis) (04/20/89)
In <534@dutent8.UUCP>, cacd@dutent8.UUCP writes: > I am preparing a manuscript in which I would like to > include laser printer hardcopies of existing GEMDRAW figures. > Therefore I am desperately seeking for a GEM-file to Postscript > converter program. [...] If I were doing this on a PC, I would install GEM for a Postscript printer and then send the printer output to a file. And that should do it. I don't have GemDraw for the ST, so I don't know if it can drive Postscript printers. If it can, you should be able to do the same thing. If it doesn't have the facility to print to a file maybe you could use Moshe Braner's Barrel utility to catch the printer output. Hope this helps. -- Leila Burrell-Davis, Computing Service, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK Tel: +44 273 678390 Fax: +44 273 678335 JANET: leilabd@uk.ac.sussex.syma ARPA: leilabd%syma.sussex.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk BITNET: leilabd@syma.sussex.ac.uk UUCP: leilabd@syma.uucp
ralph@nastassia.laas.fr (Ralph P. Sobek) (04/26/89)
In article <534@dutent8.UUCP> cacd@dutent8.UUCP writes: | Therefore I am desperately seeking for a GEM-file to Postscript | converter program. I heard rumors that a 'gem2ps' does exist. I have `mfps' for Meta-File to PostScript, which generates reasonable PostScript documents. The only problem is What-You-See-is-NOT-exactly-What-You-Get! GEM fonts are NOT PostScript fonts! Text on the printer is not spaced as it is on the screen, but it's doable. Either get PostScript font metric files for GEM, or vice-versa. If I remember correctly, mfps is a European product, Germany I believe. And also it was posted some time ago (before I received news). Maybe, somebody has saved the posted version; mines' slightly older. Ralph P. Sobek Disclaimer: The above ruminations are my own. ralph@laas.laas.fr Addresses are ordered by importance. ralph@laas.uucp, or ...!uunet!mcvax!laas!ralph If all else fails, try: SOBEK@FRMOP11.BITNET sobek@eclair.Berkeley.EDU
fjmora@CS.WM.EDU (Fredric Mora) (05/02/89)
dutent8!cacd asked about the availability of Metafile-to-postscript
conversion program. I was unable to answer directly (mail bounced) so
here it is:
There is a PD utility called mfps that convert most of the GEM
metafiles into Postscript. Works well, although a big buggy.
Available on GEnie (at least).
Regards,
Frederic Mora GEnie:
The College of William and Mary F.MORA
Dept. of Computer Science INTERNET:
Williamsburg, VA. 23185 fjmora@cs.wm.edu
USA
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