[comp.lang.postscript] Converting GIF to Postscript?

karl@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) (08/12/89)

Is it possible?  Has anybody done it?  Can they point me to software that
might do it?

-- Karl -- 

halliday@cheddar.cc.ubc.ca (Laura Halliday) (08/13/89)

In article <12265@grebyn.com> karl@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) writes:
>Is it possible?

Yes.

>                 Has anybody done it?

Routinely; I turned a GIF picture into EPSF for a PageMaker document just
yesterday.

>                                      Can they point me to software that
>might do it?

Try gif2ps, which you can ftp from surya.waterloo.edu. It reads the picture,
converts the colour palette to grey scale and dumps out the results as a
PostScript image. It works well on a Sun-3, but I haven't been able to 
make it work (yet) on the crummy XT clone I usually use. The version you
will get from surya doesn't create EPSF, but you don't have to change much
to make it do so.

...laura

vgopal@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (venu.p.gopal) (08/14/89)

In article <12265@grebyn.com> karl@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) writes:
>Is it possible?  Has anybody done it?  Can they point me to software that
>might do it?
>
>-- Karl -- 

Yes, it can be done.  What I do is to display it using a GIF display program
and then capture it to postscript using a postscript screen capturing utility
called SCRtoPS.  SCRtoPS will convert color to greyscale on EGA/VGA so your
black and white prints come out ok.

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twb@cbnewsh.ATT.COM (thomas.w.beattie) (08/19/89)

In article <12265@grebyn.com> karl@grebyn.com (Karl Nyberg) writes:
>Is it possible?  Has anybody done it?  Can they point me to software that
>might do it?
>
>-- Karl -- 


There is a utility named GIFTOPS, that works well.

I usually use the Fuzzy Bit Map utilities.
They will produce color PostScript from color GIF.
I have printed them on a QMS colorscript 100.
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Tom Beattie
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