srv@philabs.philips.com (Sreeraman Venkitasubrahamanian) (11/09/89)
I am trying to convert a 'PicED MetaFile (PMF)' into a postscript file
so that it can be printed on our available laser printer. The above PMF
is an ascii file output from a Mentor Graphics software called PicED
and is supposed to closely resemble postscript page description language.
The file has to be preceded by a prologue that defines the PMF primitives
in terms of postscript primitives. Has anybody done this?
According to the PicED manual, "the syntactic constructs, delimiters
and escape sequences in PMF are identical to postscript". Given this
how difficult would it be to write this prologue part?
The purpose is to print a mentor picture file on an unconnected laser
printer. (We don't have the server for the Apollo). Is there is any other
way of doing this? I know that the mentor software can output picture files
in a format called TIF. Can this be converted to PS?
Any pointers, suggestions etc. will be greatly appreciated. I just happened
to get involved in the above problem and normally don't read these
newsgroups. So please send your replies to 'srv@philabs.philips.com'
Thanks in advance.
Sreeram
(srv@philabs.philips.com)