djd@eos (Daniel J. Dasaro) (10/25/90)
I know this group is turning into a group full of questions about converting PS to something or something to PS but that's what I'm doing. I have a MacDraw document (small) that I want converted to PS. Any way to do this? -Dan
jgotobed@lpl.arizona.edu (Joe Gotobed x4549) (10/25/90)
I'm looking for a program that will convert a Postscript file to a raster file, either bitmapped, greyscale or rgb tuples. We have a Matrix QRZ film writer attached to a Sun and drive it with our own software that reads in raster files. I want to be able to send files to it from our PC applications like Micro- Grafix Designer & Apple's Mac-Draw. Postscript is a format all of these applications can write so the idea at this point is to use a package that reads Postscript files and generates a raster file for the QRZ. Naturally we'll have to scale it appropriately for the resolution of the Filmwriter and such. I was hoping I could find a display postscript program and change the part that writes to the frame buffer to write to a file in- stead. Could anyone suggest some source code to start with, or even a commercial product? I just hauled in a copy of ghostscript-2.0 is that a good start or am I way off the nut? In the long run want the sun to provide a "print queue" to the network that the PCs can send their postscript files to. This queue will then run the PS files through the filter to generate a raster file for the QRZ and call the driver to load it & expose the film. Any comments and suggestions on this approach or an alternate method would be greatly appreciated. I'll be happy to summarize to the net later. Thanks Joe ------------------------------------------------- Joe Gotobed (joe@arizona.edu) Network & Systems Manager Lunar and Planetary Laboratory University of Arizona Tucson, AZ 85721 (602) 621-4549
djd@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Daniel J. Dasaro) (10/26/90)
I received mail with a solution that worked. Here's what I learned: >From fed!m1pkd00@uunet.UU.NET Thu Oct 25 06:53:19 1990 > >If you quickly depress k or f key right after you click <ok> on the print >dialogue, then the program will print the file into a file called >PostScript0 (left in the current or system folder [applications]) instead of >sending the file to the printer. I tried both f and k and the files generated were identical. I was using a very small MacDraw document so the differences may only appear for larger files. I got another response but haven't tried it. Here it is for information: >From iuvax!melodian.cs.uiuc.edu!nelson Thu Oct 25 10:33:08 1990 >Hold down command-K when you print. Or if macDraw doesn't like > that, resEdit your laserPrinterDriver to add the postScript Box. > (See macUser tips about 5 months back). Thanks to those who replied, -Danny