[comp.text.desktop] Encapsulated PS

huyn@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Pierre Nam Huyn) (06/29/90)

Hello:

Would anyone know how to convert a (hand generated) normal Postscript file
to an EPS file (suitable for DTP software on the PC such as PageMaker) ?

Any advice or pointer would be appreciated. Either e-mail or posting is fine.

Pierre

aldus@cdp.UUCP (07/03/90)

In general you want to add an EPS header to your PostScript file.
The only tricky part is figuring out the bounding box dimensions.
When in doubt, I just use 8-1/2x11 or 612 792 in points.

The generic EPS header is:
%!-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-1.2
%%Title:
%%Creator:
%%CreationDate:
%%BoundingBox: 0 0 612 792
%%YourCommentsGoHere
%%EndComments

Dig?  Adobe makes a tech note on the matter available.

Good luck!

jwhiting

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