jwhiting@cdp.UUCP (09/13/90)
A different buncha EPS issues: I write a fair number of EPS files. I work on a Mac and use SmartArt to generate my PICTs for screen images. So far, so good. Now I want to port these EPS images over to the PC under Windows and eventually onto a Sun. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no SmartArt or equivalent for the PC. So the first question is, how does one generate a PC screen image with a minimum of fuss and muss? Hand generating TIFFs ain't my idea of a good time. So I sez to myself: time for a shortcut. Use Adobe PhotoShop to open the PICT resource up and export it as a TIFF, link it to the PC and somehow insert it as a comment in the PC EPS file? Apple File Exchange with DataViz filters? Or do I have to live with gray BBoxes all my life? And what about EPSI? It was always a part of the EPS spec but not even Illustrator reads it. The sample in the tech note don't work. Will the new Illustrator 3.0 read generic hex screen images, setting the example for other developers to follow (hint, hint)? And speaking of PhotoShop shortcuts, will the export as "raw" option generate the equivalent of an EPSI screen image? Will this EPSI beast be further explained in the upcoming Son of Red Book? And what about the Sun world? While I don't use one now, I'd like to real soon. What do they use for screen images when displaying hand made EPS files? inquiring minds want to know... Please respond within this conference because I have a hunch I'm not the only one with these questions. thanks gang, jwhiting cdp!jwhiting@labrea.stanford.edu [DE3MIR]jwhiting
woody@chinacat.Unicom.COM (Woody Baker @ Eagle Signal) (09/14/90)
In article <134400016@cdp>, jwhiting@cdp.UUCP writes: > > Now I want to port these EPS images over to the PC under Windows and > eventually onto a Sun. Correct me if I'm wrong, but there is no > SmartArt or equivalent for the PC. So the first question is, how does Emerald City has a product called Lasertalk PC that as far as I know will return the bitmap back to you. It is fairly pricy, as is Arts&Letters. Arts &Letters will accept EPS files. It will also accept TIFF files and allow you to curve trace them. You really need a math coprocessor, and some time. It definitly can be a hassle to get them Correct, but it can be done. I would further surmise that most of the packages that are PS interpreters for the PC, such as Ghostscript, (see prior posting), or GoScript etc will also allow you to do this. > one generate a PC screen image with a minimum of fuss and muss? Hand > generating TIFFs ain't my idea of a good time. > > So I sez to myself: time for a shortcut. Use Adobe PhotoShop to open >
naughton@wind.Eng.Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton) (09/15/90)
In article <134400016@cdp>, jwhiting@cdp.UUCP writes: |> |> A different buncha EPS issues: |> |> I write a fair number of EPS files. I work on a Mac and use SmartArt to |> generate my PICTs for screen images. So far, so good. |> |> Now I want to port these EPS images over to the PC under Windows and |> eventually onto a Sun. ... |> And what about the Sun world? While I don't use one now, I'd like to |> real soon. What do they use for screen images when displaying hand made |> EPS files? I use Frame/Maker V2.0 on a SPARC and created a Sun Logo with a screen preview by writing the PS code to draw the logo, then feeding that to pageview, the PostScript previewer under OpenWindows, and converted that raster to PostScript with ras2ps (included in OW2.0) then pasted the hex output of that into the PostScript source for the logo as an EPSI preview. The final product looks like this: %!PS-Adobe-2.0 EPSF-2.0 %%Creator: Patrick J. Naughton (naughton@wind) %%For: (Sun Microsystems Incorporated) () %%Title: (Sun Logo) %%CreationDate: (12/20/88) (10:56 AM) %%Pages: 1 %%DocumentFonts: Times-Bold Helvetica %%BoundingBox: 0 0 160 60 %%EndComments %%BeginPreview: 160 63 1 63 % FFFFFFE0FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF % FFFFFFC07FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF % FFFFFF803FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF : : 63 total lines of hex... : : % FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF7FFFFFFFFFF % FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFE7FFFFFFFFFF % FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFCFFFFFFFFFFF %%EndPreview %%EndProlog %%Page "one" 1 ... PS code to draw the logo ... /Times-Bold findfont 64 scalefont setfont 70 15 moveto (sun) show /Helvetica findfont 17 scalefont setfont 70 0 moveto (microsystems) show showpage %%Trailer |> |> inquiring minds want to know... Please respond within this conference |> because I have a hunch I'm not the only one with these questions. |> |> thanks gang, |> jwhiting |> |> cdp!jwhiting@labrea.stanford.edu |> [DE3MIR]jwhiting -- Hope this helps... -Patrick ______________________________________________________________________ Patrick J. Naughton ARPA: naughton@sun.com Window Systems Group UUCP: ...!sun!naughton Sun Microsystems, Inc. AT&T: (415) 336 - 1080