shull@kings.wharton.upenn.edu (Christopher E. Shull) (01/05/90)
I am looking for a program to convert PostScript to either MacDraw format or Interleaf Graphics Format (IGF). If you have one, please either send it to me, or let me know how I can buy it. If you want to know the nitty gritty details, let me explain. I can easily incorporate complex engineering line drawings into technical publications if the original drawings have been constructed using CAD software. Filters enable me to move the files into Interleaf, where I can edit and modify drawings within the publishing environment. However, if my drawings originate as old hard copy, the same flexibility provided by electronic publishing is a bit more elusive. I have used a high resolution scanner and auto-tracing tools on a Mac II to produce editable object-oriented images using Adobe's Illustrator 88. These images can be exported as either PostScript files or PICT files with embedded PostScript code, but neither can be edited because their destination is assumed to be simple word processing applications. BUT, I need to edit these files within Interleaf, which doesn't know how to filter either PostScript files or these PICT files with embedded PostScript in such a way as to preserve editable objects. The good news is that Interleaf evidently knows how to filter files created by MacDraw -- and maintains editable objects. I would therefore like to convert the PostScript files to MacDraw files, which I can export to Interleaf on the Mac and convert to Interleaf graphics. Then I would be able to edit and maintain them, either on the Mac or on a Unix Workstation. Alternatively, if someone has a PostScript to Interleaf Graphics Format (IGF) converter, that would simplify the process even more! Can anyone help me? -Chris Christopher E. Shull shull@kings.wharton.upenn.edu Decision Sciences Department shull@wharton.upenn.edu The Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 19104-6366 215/898-5930 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead!" Admiral Farragut, USN, 1801-1870 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------