dvb@inmet.inmet.com (04/09/90)
> Is there any program that convert a EPS or postsctipt file to PICT format? > Although PICT to EPS or Posctscript is easy with lots of drawing programs, > but it seems that no program I know can do the job in the other direction. There is a DA called, oddly enough, "EPS -> PICT" around here somewhere, but I don't know where it came from. I did not see one listed in my latest sumex "all-files.txt" so I will check into it and mail it out if that is allowed... David V. Baker Intermetrics, Inc.
derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) (04/10/90)
ahn@mpx1.lampf.lanl.gov (Ahn, Hyo E.) writes: >Is there any program that convert a EPS or postsctipt file to PICT format? >Although PICT to EPS or Posctscript is easy with lots of drawing programs, >but it seems that no program I know can do the job in the other direction. I have used the program Postility Toolkit from PostCraft (805-257-1797) to convert EPS to PICT. I have been seeking a product to convert postscript to PICT for a very long time. If you find one, please let me know.
jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) (04/11/90)
In article <47796@lanl.gov> ahn@mpx1.lampf.lanl.gov (Ahn, Hyo E.) writes:
Is there any program that convert a EPS or postsctipt file to PICT format?
Although PICT to EPS or Posctscript is easy with lots of drawing programs,
but it seems that no program I know can do the job in the other direction.
MacRIP, a software Postscript emulator, will do this. It costs around
$200-300.
MacRIP: TeleTypesetting (617)734-9700
jas
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jas@isi.edu DELPHI: JSULLIVAN | University of Southern Californiatbutler@wpi.wpi.edu (Tim Butler) (04/11/90)
>In article <2169@crystal9.UUCP> derosa@motcid.UUCP (John DeRosa) writes: >ahn@mpx1.lampf.lanl.gov (Ahn, Hyo E.) writes: > >>Is there any program that convert a EPS or postsctipt file to PICT format? >>Although PICT to EPS or Posctscript is easy with lots of drawing programs, >>but it seems that no program I know can do the job in the other direction. > >I have used the program Postility Toolkit from PostCraft (805-257-1797) >to convert EPS to PICT. > >I have been seeking a product to convert postscript to PICT for a >very long time. If you find one, please let me know. It would seem to me for a program to be able to do this it would need to have its own postcript interpreter (very expensive) or at least one of the clone interpreters. I have seen software based PREVIEWERS and heard of previewers that needed to be connected to a LaserWriter (and thus used the postcript interpreter resident in the printer). But even in this case all that the program would be able to do would be to define EVERY construction in the document as its own object. i.e. It wouldn't be able to tell that those four lines it was supposed to draw were in fact defining a box, therefore it would have to make them just individual lines. I also don't know how well the PICT format would handle some of the very different items and effects that are possible in postcript. I therefore doubt that such a product exists (but perhaps by making that claim I will instantaneously precipitate its existence, thus making me wrong after making a public statement of supposed fact) The utility that is converting EPSF to PICT is actually EXTRACTING a PICT image. EPSF is a format that saves a PICT version of the graphic in addition to the postcrip code. (The postcript code is stored in the data fork and the PICT is in a resource in the resource fork of the file) I hope this helps (at least answer some questions). Of course, if I am blatantly wrong on any of these points, feel free to correct me. -tim Tim Butler (tbutler@wpi.wpi.edu) Teaching Assistant HL 103b tel (508) 831-5424 Department of Mechanical Engineering Worcester Polytechnic Institute