srv@philabs.philips.com (Sreeram Venkit) (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? 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)
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)